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authorAditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>2018-12-23 19:42:38 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-12-05 09:20:51 +0100
commitbb76fe3f703bf000dcbbb8757c3fbf5f4ee92f2b (patch)
tree90db102ab01e71a34a0aa4890ca62338bacf1ee6 /net
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net/net_namespace: Check the return value of register_pernet_subsys()
[ Upstream commit 0eb987c874dc93f9c9d85a6465dbde20fdd3884c ] In net_ns_init(), register_pernet_subsys() could fail while registering network namespace subsystems. The fix checks the return value and sends a panic() on failure. Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net_namespace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index 6dab186d4b8f..c60123dff803 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -913,7 +913,8 @@ static int __init net_ns_init(void)
init_net_initialized = true;
up_write(&pernet_ops_rwsem);
- register_pernet_subsys(&net_ns_ops);
+ if (register_pernet_subsys(&net_ns_ops))
+ panic("Could not register network namespace subsystems");
rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_NEWNSID, rtnl_net_newid, NULL,
RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED);