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| author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2007-07-30 17:04:52 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-07-31 02:28:16 -0700 |
| commit | b217d616a15fcfb3caf2a72c1a071c6d3f182f8d (patch) | |
| tree | 301422d7c0fba653dfb5e32c80fedc2cede627e3 /net/ipv6/addrconf.c | |
| parent | fcc5a03ac42564e9e255c1134dda47442289e466 (diff) | |
[IPV4/IPV6]: Fail registration if inet device construction fails
Now that netdev notifications can fail, we can use this to signal
errors during registration for IPv4/IPv6. In particular, if we
fail to allocate memory for the inet device, we can fail the netdev
registration.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/addrconf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 06012920912..91ef3be5aba 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -2256,14 +2256,14 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) data; struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev); int run_pending = 0; + int err; switch(event) { case NETDEV_REGISTER: if (!idev && dev->mtu >= IPV6_MIN_MTU) { idev = ipv6_add_dev(dev); if (!idev) - printk(KERN_WARNING "IPv6: add_dev failed for %s\n", - dev->name); + return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM); } break; case NETDEV_UP: @@ -2373,7 +2373,9 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, NULL); addrconf_sysctl_register(idev, &idev->cnf); #endif - snmp6_register_dev(idev); + err = snmp6_register_dev(idev); + if (err) + return notifier_from_errno(err); } break; } |