[Patch] Possible dereference in net/core/rtnetlink.c

hi,

another possible dereference spotted by coverity (#cid 1390).
if the nlmsg_parse() call fails, we goto errout, where we call
dev_put(), with dev still initialized to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <[email protected]>

--- linux-2.6.18-git5/net/core/rtnetlink.c.orig	2006-09-26 12:48:03.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.18-git5/net/core/rtnetlink.c	2006-09-26 12:48:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int rtnl_getlink(struct sk_buff *
 
 	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFLA_MAX, ifla_policy);
 	if (err < 0)
-		goto errout;
+		return err;
 
 	ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 	if (ifm->ifi_index >= 0) {


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