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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html