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From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Cc:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 139/219] net/net_namespace: Check the return value of register_pernet_subsys()
Date:   Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:47:51 -0500
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From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>

[ Upstream commit 0eb987c874dc93f9c9d85a6465dbde20fdd3884c ]

In net_ns_init(), register_pernet_subsys() could fail while registering
network namespace subsystems. The fix checks the return value and
sends a panic() on failure.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 net/core/net_namespace.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index 6dab186d4b8f6..c60123dff8039 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -913,7 +913,8 @@ static int __init net_ns_init(void)
 	init_net_initialized = true;
 	up_write(&pernet_ops_rwsem);
 
-	register_pernet_subsys(&net_ns_ops);
+	if (register_pernet_subsys(&net_ns_ops))
+		panic("Could not register network namespace subsystems");
 
 	rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_NEWNSID, rtnl_net_newid, NULL,
 		      RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED);
-- 
2.20.1