3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 5ee4433efe99b9f39f6eff5052a177bbcfe72cea ] By definition net_generic should never be called when it can return NULL. Fail conspicously with a BUG_ON to make it clear when people mess up that a NULL return should never happen. Recently there was a bug in the CAIF subsystem where it was registered with register_pernet_device instead of register_pernet_subsys. It was erroneously concluded that net_generic could validly return NULL and that net_assign_generic was buggy (when it was just inefficient). Hopefully this BUG_ON will prevent people to coming to similar erroneous conclusions in the futrue. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- include/net/netns/generic.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/include/net/netns/generic.h +++ b/include/net/netns/generic.h @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static inline void *net_generic(const st ptr = ng->ptr[id - 1]; rcu_read_unlock(); + BUG_ON(!ptr); return ptr; } #endif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
