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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2012-01-26 14:02:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-03 09:19:03 -0800 |
| commit | cc1be3611bae365c2399f5208732ddd0969cf46d (patch) | |
| tree | 892deefa265dd115d635ac8edc2aba11558bd3d2 /include | |
| parent | 561331eae0a03d0c4cf60f3cf485aa3e8aa5ab48 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-cc1be3611bae365c2399f5208732ddd0969cf46d.tar.gz lwn-cc1be3611bae365c2399f5208732ddd0969cf46d.zip | |
netns: Fail conspicously if someone uses net_generic at an inappropriate time.
[ 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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netns/generic.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netns/generic.h b/include/net/netns/generic.h index 3419bf5cd154..d55f43443335 100644 --- a/include/net/netns/generic.h +++ b/include/net/netns/generic.h @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static inline void *net_generic(const struct net *net, int id) ptr = ng->ptr[id - 1]; rcu_read_unlock(); + BUG_ON(!ptr); return ptr; } #endif |