[DECNET]: Handle a failure in neigh_parms_alloc (take 2)
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:51:51 +0000 (15:51 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:51:51 +0000 (15:51 -0800)
While enhancing the neighbour code to handle multiple network
namespaces I noticed that decnet is assuming neigh_parms_alloc
will allways succeed, which is clearly wrong.  So handle the
failure.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/decnet/dn_dev.c

index fc6f3c023a543fdb30cca938856de595eb38838f..ed083ab455b75f600ec5da51716ace4db8a04905 100644 (file)
@@ -1145,16 +1145,23 @@ struct dn_dev *dn_dev_create(struct net_device *dev, int *err)
        init_timer(&dn_db->timer);
 
        dn_db->uptime = jiffies;
+
+       dn_db->neigh_parms = neigh_parms_alloc(dev, &dn_neigh_table);
+       if (!dn_db->neigh_parms) {
+               dev->dn_ptr = NULL;
+               kfree(dn_db);
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
        if (dn_db->parms.up) {
                if (dn_db->parms.up(dev) < 0) {
+                       neigh_parms_release(&dn_neigh_table, dn_db->neigh_parms);
                        dev->dn_ptr = NULL;
                        kfree(dn_db);
                        return NULL;
                }
        }
 
-       dn_db->neigh_parms = neigh_parms_alloc(dev, &dn_neigh_table);
-
        dn_dev_sysctl_register(dev, &dn_db->parms);
 
        dn_dev_set_timer(dev);