netdev - [PATCH net-next 3/8] tcp_metrics: panic when tcp_metrics

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Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:38:12 -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,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 3/8] tcp_metrics: panic when tcp_metrics_init fails.


There is not a practical way to cleanup during boot so
just panic if there is a problem initializing tcp_metrics.

That will at least give us a clear place to start debugging
if something does go wrong.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
index e5f41bd5ec1b..4206b14d956d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -1175,16 +1175,10 @@ void __init tcp_metrics_init(void)
 
 	ret = register_pernet_subsys(&tcp_net_metrics_ops);
 	if (ret < 0)
-		goto cleanup;
+		panic("Could not allocate the tcp_metrics hash table\n");
+
 	ret = genl_register_family_with_ops(&tcp_metrics_nl_family,
 					    tcp_metrics_nl_ops);
 	if (ret < 0)
-		goto cleanup_subsys;
-	return;
-
-cleanup_subsys:
-	unregister_pernet_subsys(&tcp_net_metrics_ops);
-
-cleanup:
-	return;
+		panic("Could not register tcp_metrics generic netlink\n");
 }
-- 
2.2.1

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