[IPV4/IPV6]: Fail registration if inet device construction fails
Now that netdev notifications can fail, we can use this to signal
errors during registration for IPv4/IPv6. In particular, if we
fail to allocate memory for the inet device, we can fail the netdev
registration.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 5 ++---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 8 +++++---
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index abf6352..5b77bda 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1056,10 +1056,9 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this,
unsigned long event,
if (!in_dev) {
if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
+ if (!in_dev)
+ return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
- if (!in_dev)
- panic("devinet: "
- "Failed to create loopback\n");
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOXFRM, 1);
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOPOLICY, 1);
}
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 0601292..91ef3be 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2256,14 +2256,14 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifier_block *this,
unsigned long event,
struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) data;
struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
int run_pending = 0;
+ int err;
switch(event) {
case NETDEV_REGISTER:
if (!idev && dev->mtu >= IPV6_MIN_MTU) {
idev = ipv6_add_dev(dev);
if (!idev)
- printk(KERN_WARNING "IPv6: add_dev failed for
%s\n",
- dev->name);
+ return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
}
break;
case NETDEV_UP:
@@ -2373,7 +2373,9 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifier_block *this,
unsigned long event,
NULL);
addrconf_sysctl_register(idev, &idev->cnf);
#endif
- snmp6_register_dev(idev);
+ err = snmp6_register_dev(idev);
+ if (err)
+ return notifier_from_errno(err);
}
break;
}
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