From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: [1/1] netlink: no need to crash if table does not exist. Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:44:56 +0300 Message-ID: <20070321104456.GA2637@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:56643 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751970AbXCUKpM (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:45:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org We would already do that on init. Some things become very confused, when nl_table is not used to store netlink sockets. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov 23ebdcf1f439cde050a63f33897d5b099fe08c95 diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 9b69d9b..071e4d7 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -1330,8 +1330,6 @@ netlink_kernel_create(int unit, unsigned int groups, struct netlink_sock *nlk; unsigned long *listeners = NULL; - BUG_ON(!nl_table); - if (unit<0 || unit>=MAX_LINKS) return NULL; -- Evgeniy Polyakov