netdev - [1/1] netlink: no need to crash if table does not exist.

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:44:56 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [1/1] netlink: no need to crash if table does not exist.

We would already do that on init.
Some things become very confused, when nl_table is not used to store
netlink sockets.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>

23ebdcf1f439cde050a63f33897d5b099fe08c95
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 9b69d9b..071e4d7 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1330,8 +1330,6 @@ netlink_kernel_create(int unit, unsigned int groups,
 	struct netlink_sock *nlk;
 	unsigned long *listeners = NULL;

-	BUG_ON(!nl_table);
-
 	if (unit<0 || unit>=MAX_LINKS)
 		return NULL;

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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