linux-kernel - [PATCH net] ipv4: Fix NULL vs error pointer check in inet_blackhole_dev

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Message-ID: <aLaQWL9NguWmeM1i@stanley.mountain>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 09:36:08 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] ipv4: Fix NULL vs error pointer check in
 inet_blackhole_dev_init()

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 <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
---
 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);
 
-- 
2.47.2