[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: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index d8e25e0..221e403 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@
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) {