Unless I miss a guaranteed relation between between "f" and 
"new_fa->fa_info" this patch is required for fixing a NULL dereference
introduced by commit a6501e080c318f8d4467679d17807f42b3a33cd5 and 
spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---

 net/ipv4/fib_hash.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6/net/ipv4/fib_hash.c.old   2008-02-19 23:23:14.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/fib_hash.c       2008-02-19 23:38:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -367,17 +367,18 @@ static struct fib_node *fib_find_node(st
        }
 
        return NULL;
 }
 
 static int fn_hash_insert(struct fib_table *tb, struct fib_config *cfg)
 {
        struct fn_hash *table = (struct fn_hash *) tb->tb_data;
-       struct fib_node *new_f, *f;
+       struct fib_node *new_f = NULL;
+       struct fib_node *f;
        struct fib_alias *fa, *new_fa;
        struct fn_zone *fz;
        struct fib_info *fi;
        u8 tos = cfg->fc_tos;
        __be32 key;
        int err;
 
        if (cfg->fc_dst_len > 32)
@@ -491,33 +492,32 @@ static int fn_hash_insert(struct fib_tab
        }
 
        err = -ENOENT;
        if (!(cfg->fc_nlflags & NLM_F_CREATE))
                goto out;
 
        err = -ENOBUFS;
 
-       new_f = NULL;
        if (!f) {
                new_f = kmem_cache_zalloc(fn_hash_kmem, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (new_f == NULL)
                        goto out;
 
                INIT_HLIST_NODE(&new_f->fn_hash);
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_f->fn_alias);
                new_f->fn_key = key;
                f = new_f;
        }
 
        new_fa = &f->fn_embedded_alias;
        if (new_fa->fa_info != NULL) {
                new_fa = kmem_cache_alloc(fn_alias_kmem, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (new_fa == NULL)
-                       goto out_free_new_f;
+                       goto out;
        }
        new_fa->fa_info = fi;
        new_fa->fa_tos = tos;
        new_fa->fa_type = cfg->fc_type;
        new_fa->fa_scope = cfg->fc_scope;
        new_fa->fa_state = 0;
 
        /*
@@ -535,19 +535,19 @@ static int fn_hash_insert(struct fib_tab
        if (new_f)
                fz->fz_nent++;
        rt_cache_flush(-1);
 
        rtmsg_fib(RTM_NEWROUTE, key, new_fa, cfg->fc_dst_len, tb->tb_id,
                  &cfg->fc_nlinfo, 0);
        return 0;
 
-out_free_new_f:
-       kmem_cache_free(fn_hash_kmem, new_f);
 out:
+       if (new_f)
+               kmem_cache_free(fn_hash_kmem, new_f);
        fib_release_info(fi);
        return err;
 }
 
 
 static int fn_hash_delete(struct fib_table *tb, struct fib_config *cfg)
 {
        struct fn_hash *table = (struct fn_hash*)tb->tb_data;

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