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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:27:10 -0500 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, hannes@...essinduktion.org, ddutt@...ulusnetworks.com, vipin@...ulusnetworks.com, shmulik.ladkani@...il.com, dsahern@...il.com Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/6] tcp_metrics: panic when tcp_metrics can not be allocated Panic so that in the unlikely event we have problems we will have a clear place to start debugging instead of a mysterious NULL pointer deference later on. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> --- net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c index e5f41bd5ec1b..fdf4bdda971f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c @@ -1186,5 +1186,6 @@ cleanup_subsys: unregister_pernet_subsys(&tcp_net_metrics_ops); cleanup: + panic("Could not allocate the tcp_metrics hash table\n"); return; } -- 2.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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