[IPV6] route6/fib6: Don't panic a kmem_cache_create.

If the kmem_cache_creation fails, the kernel will panic. It is
acceptable if the system is booting, but if the ipv6 protocol is
compiled as a module and it is loaded after the system has booted, do
we want to panic instead of just failing to initialize the protocol ?

The init function is now returning an error and this one is checked
for protocol initialization. So the ipv6 protocol will safely fails.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index c100b44f2b87..5fae04506ad9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -1478,8 +1478,11 @@ int __init fib6_init(void)
         int ret;
         fib6_node_kmem = kmem_cache_create("fib6_nodes",
                                            sizeof(struct fib6_node),
-                                           0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC,
+                                           0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
                                            NULL);
+        if (!fib6_node_kmem)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
         fib6_tables_init();
 
         ret = __rtnl_register(PF_INET6, RTM_GETROUTE, NULL, inet6_dump_fib);