about ipmr

[Joilnen Leite <pidhash@yahoo.com>]

excuse me for my english bad :) !

alloc_netdev func can return NULL and I think that is
not right to use dev pointer in this case without a
test.
so maybe it is better ? !

---------------------------------------------

--- knl_src/net/ipv4/ipmr.c	2003-11-25
16:02:59.000000000 -0300
+++ ipmr_patch.c	2004-01-08 10:21:22.000000000 -0300
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
 	dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct net_device_stats),
"pimreg",
 			   reg_vif_setup);
 
-	if (register_netdevice(dev)) {
+	if (dev&&register_netdevice(dev)) {
 		kfree(dev);
 		return NULL;
 	}

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sorry if is a dumb question and thanks for atention

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