6.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org
[ Upstream commit a51160f8da850a65afbf165f5bbac7ffb388bf74 ]
The inetdev_init() function never returns NULL. Check for error pointers instead.
Fixes: 22600596b675 ("ipv4: give an IPv4 dev to blackhole_netdev") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org Reviewed-by: Simon Horman horms@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aLaQWL9NguWmeM1i@stanley.mountain Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index c47d3828d4f65..942a887bf0893 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -340,14 +340,13 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev)
static int __init inet_blackhole_dev_init(void) { - int err = 0; + struct in_device *in_dev;
rtnl_lock(); - if (!inetdev_init(blackhole_netdev)) - err = -ENOMEM; + in_dev = inetdev_init(blackhole_netdev); rtnl_unlock();
- return err; + return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(in_dev); } late_initcall(inet_blackhole_dev_init);