[PATCH] ipv4: nexthop: Fix deadcode issue by performing a proper NULL check

From: patrickeigensatz
Date: Mon Jun 01 2020 - 07:12:15 EST


From: Patrick Eigensatz <patrickeigensatz@xxxxxxxxx>

After allocating the spare nexthop group it should be tested for kzalloc()
returning NULL, instead the already used nexthop group (which cannot be
NULL at this point) had been tested so far.

Additionally, if kzalloc() fails, return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) instead of NULL.

Coverity-id: 1463885
Reported-by: Coverity <scan-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Eigensatz <patrickeigensatz@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
index 563f71bcb2d7..cb9412cd5e4b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
@@ -1118,10 +1118,10 @@ static struct nexthop *nexthop_create_group(struct net *net,

/* spare group used for removals */
nhg->spare = nexthop_grp_alloc(num_nh);
- if (!nhg) {
+ if (!nhg->spare) {
kfree(nhg);
kfree(nh);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
nhg->spare->spare = nhg;

--
2.26.2