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[PATCH 2.6 3/7]: Fix free_netdev after failed alloc_netdev in ipgre_init

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH 2.6 3/7]: Fix free_netdev after failed alloc_netdev in ipgre_init
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:12:57 +0200
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5
Passing a NULL-ptr to free_netdev is wrong.


# This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
#
# ChangeSet
#   2004/10/03 20:39:25+02:00 kaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
#   [IPV4]: Fix free_netdev after failed alloc_netdev in ipgre_init
#   
#   Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
# 
# net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
#   2004/10/03 20:38:45+02:00 kaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx +6 -5
#   [IPV4]: Fix free_netdev after failed alloc_netdev in ipgre_init
#   
#   Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
# 
diff -Nru a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c 2004-10-03 22:19:31 +02:00
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c 2004-10-03 22:19:31 +02:00
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@
 
 static int __init ipgre_init(void)
 {
-       int err = -EINVAL;
+       int err;
 
        printk(KERN_INFO "GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver\n");
 
@@ -1263,18 +1263,19 @@
                                           ipgre_tunnel_setup);
        if (!ipgre_fb_tunnel_dev) {
                err = -ENOMEM;
-               goto fail;
+               goto err1;
        }
 
        ipgre_fb_tunnel_dev->init = ipgre_fb_tunnel_init;
 
        if ((err = register_netdev(ipgre_fb_tunnel_dev)))
-               goto fail;
+               goto err2;
 out:
        return err;
-fail:
-       inet_del_protocol(&ipgre_protocol, IPPROTO_GRE);
+err2:
        free_netdev(ipgre_fb_tunnel_dev);
+err1:
+       inet_del_protocol(&ipgre_protocol, IPPROTO_GRE);
        goto out;
 }
 
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