From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Laight Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/7] net: core: eliminate dev_alloc_name{,_ns} code duplication Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:26:27 +0000 Message-ID: <9845d969b0af4f7ca534144bc5d4872e@AcuMS.aculab.com> References: <20171112231511.4666-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <20171112231511.4666-4-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" To: 'Rasmus Villemoes' , "David S. Miller" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171112231511.4666-4-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Rasmus Villemoes > Sent: 12 November 2017 23:15 > dev_alloc_name contained a BUG_ON(), which I moved to dev_alloc_name_ns; > the only other caller of that already has the same BUG_ON. > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes > --- > net/core/dev.c | 12 ++---------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c > index 240ae6bc1097..1077bfe97bde 100644 > --- a/net/core/dev.c > +++ b/net/core/dev.c > @@ -1112,6 +1112,7 @@ static int dev_alloc_name_ns(struct net *net, > char buf[IFNAMSIZ]; > int ret; > > + BUG_ON(!net); > ret = __dev_alloc_name(net, name, buf); Just delete it. The NULL pointer dereference is as easy to debug as the BUG(). David