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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>2025-09-02 09:36:08 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-09-09 18:50:19 +0200
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ipv4: Fix NULL vs error pointer check in inet_blackhole_dev_init()
[ 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/devinet.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 33e87b442b47..6b0dc07f273a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -332,14 +332,13 @@ 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);