Commit 9918f230 authored by Eric Sesterhenn's avatar Eric Sesterhenn Committed by David S. Miller
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[RTNETLINK]: Possible dereference in net/core/rtnetlink.c 



another possible dereference spotted by coverity (#cid 1390).
if the nlmsg_parse() call fails, we goto errout, where we call
dev_put(), with dev still initialized to NULL.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 753ed90d

net/core/rtnetlink.c

+1 −1
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@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void *arg) 


	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFLA_MAX, ifla_policy);

	if (err < 0)

		goto errout;

		return err;



	ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);

	if (ifm->ifi_index >= 0) {