netns: Fail conspicously if someone uses net_generic at an inappropriate time.
commitcc1be3611bae365c2399f5208732ddd0969cf46d
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:02:55 +0000 (26 14:02 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:19:03 +0000 (3 09:19 -0800)
tree892deefa265dd115d635ac8edc2aba11558bd3d2
parent561331eae0a03d0c4cf60f3cf485aa3e8aa5ab48
netns: Fail conspicously if someone uses net_generic at an inappropriate time.

[ Upstream commit 5ee4433efe99b9f39f6eff5052a177bbcfe72cea ]

By definition net_generic should never be called when it can return
NULL.  Fail conspicously with a BUG_ON to make it clear when people mess
up that a NULL return should never happen.

Recently there was a bug in the CAIF subsystem where it was registered
with register_pernet_device instead of register_pernet_subsys.  It was
erroneously concluded that net_generic could validly return NULL and
that net_assign_generic was buggy (when it was just inefficient).
Hopefully this BUG_ON will prevent people to coming to similar erroneous
conclusions in the futrue.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/net/netns/generic.h