From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [patch -next] ipip: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ip_tunnel_init_net() Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:05:10 +0300 Message-ID: <20130819070510.GE28591@elgon.mountain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov , James Morris , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: "David S. Miller" , Nicolas Dichtel Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kernel-janitors-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org We need to move the derefernce after the IS_ERR() check. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c index a4d9126..24549b4 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c @@ -854,14 +854,14 @@ int ip_tunnel_init_net(struct net *net, int ip_tnl_net_id, rtnl_lock(); itn->fb_tunnel_dev = __ip_tunnel_create(net, ops, &parms); - /* FB netdevice is special: we have one, and only one per netns. - * Allowing to move it to another netns is clearly unsafe. - */ - itn->fb_tunnel_dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; rtnl_unlock(); if (IS_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev)) return PTR_ERR(itn->fb_tunnel_dev); + /* FB netdevice is special: we have one, and only one per netns. + * Allowing to move it to another netns is clearly unsafe. + */ + itn->fb_tunnel_dev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; return 0; }