netdev - [PATCH] net: Fix oops in dev

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Date:	Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:04:31 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] 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@...il.com>
---

 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 048cf11..daca72e 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);
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