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| author | Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> | 2008-12-23 04:35:28 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-12-23 04:35:28 +0100 |
| commit | 5f2f6da76c429c42d54f73807f00b8fd761a7d68 (patch) | |
| tree | 20cabaf277e2e95df669c4e9ee6968067b096dc0 /net | |
| parent | tg3: Update version to 3.97 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5f2f6da76c429c42d54f73807f00b8fd761a7d68.tar.xz linux-5f2f6da76c429c42d54f73807f00b8fd761a7d68.zip | |
net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()
A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
pointer before checking for NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 048cf1197872..daca72e6b37b 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3745,11 +3745,13 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd) { int err; struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name); - const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops; + const struct net_device_ops *ops; if (!dev) return -ENODEV; + ops = dev->netdev_ops; + switch (cmd) { case SIOCSIFFLAGS: /* Set interface flags */ return dev_change_flags(dev, ifr->ifr_flags); |