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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-01-26 14:02:55 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-01-27 21:06:02 -0500
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netns: Fail conspicously if someone uses net_generic at an inappropriate time.
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>
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