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authorEvgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>2007-03-09 23:04:42 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-03-23 12:49:21 -0700
commit1995b605df589e93a11395ca239891187b7f1bdf (patch)
treefbf29354610e20f8eb66dd4f0dee65a5cde09ea8 /net
parent4cabf6ba5496bc4a5a59871693145880b240b07b (diff)
Fix rtm_to_ifaddr() error return.
[IPV4]: Fix rtm_to_ifaddr() error handling. Return negative error value (embedded in the pointer) instead of returning NULL. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/devinet.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 480ace9819f..728ba5ffe43 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -503,8 +503,10 @@ static struct in_ifaddr *rtm_to_ifaddr(struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
goto errout;
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
- if (ifm->ifa_prefixlen > 32 || tb[IFA_LOCAL] == NULL)
+ if (ifm->ifa_prefixlen > 32 || tb[IFA_LOCAL] == NULL) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
goto errout;
+ }
dev = __dev_get_by_index(ifm->ifa_index);
if (dev == NULL) {