[PATCH net] ipv4: Fix NULL vs error pointer check in inet_blackhole_dev_init()
From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-02 06:36:13
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Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipv4/ipv6], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Ahern, Ido Schimmel, Linus Torvalds
The inetdev_init() function never returns NULL. Check for error
pointers instead.
Fixes: 22600596b675 ("ipv4: give an IPv4 dev to blackhole_netdev")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
---
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index c47d3828d4f6..942a887bf089 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c@@ -340,14 +340,13 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev) static int __init inet_blackhole_dev_init(void) { - int err = 0; + struct in_device *in_dev; rtnl_lock(); - if (!inetdev_init(blackhole_netdev)) - err = -ENOMEM; + in_dev = inetdev_init(blackhole_netdev); rtnl_unlock(); - return err; + return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(in_dev); } late_initcall(inet_blackhole_dev_init);
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