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net: Fix oops in dev_ifsioc()

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A command like this: "brctl addif br1 eth1" issued as a user gave me
an oops when bridge module wasn't loaded. It's caused by using a dev
pointer before checking for NULL.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jarek Poplawski 2008-12-22 19:35:28 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent d3d317092b
commit 5f2f6da76c
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@ -3745,11 +3745,13 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd)
{
int err;
struct net_device *dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, ifr->ifr_name);
const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
const struct net_device_ops *ops;
if (!dev)
return -ENODEV;
ops = dev->netdev_ops;
switch (cmd) {
case SIOCSIFFLAGS: /* Set interface flags */
return dev_change_flags(dev, ifr->ifr_flags);