[IPV4/IPV6]: Fail registration if inet device construction fails
Now that netdev notifications can fail, we can use this to signal
errors during registration for IPv4/IPv6. In particular, if we
fail to allocate memory for the inet device, we can fail the netdev
registration.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index abf6352..5b77bda 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1056,10 +1056,9 @@
if (!in_dev) {
if (event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
in_dev = inetdev_init(dev);
+ if (!in_dev)
+ return notifier_from_errno(-ENOMEM);
if (dev == &loopback_dev) {
- if (!in_dev)
- panic("devinet: "
- "Failed to create loopback\n");
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOXFRM, 1);
IN_DEV_CONF_SET(in_dev, NOPOLICY, 1);
}