[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/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index d7754abf9216..6f833cacfcfb 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -2474,7 +2474,10 @@ int __init ip6_route_init(void)
 
         ip6_dst_ops.kmem_cachep =
                 kmem_cache_create("ip6_dst_cache", sizeof(struct rt6_info), 0,
-                                  SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+                                  SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+        if (!ip6_dst_ops.kmem_cachep)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
         ip6_dst_blackhole_ops.kmem_cachep = ip6_dst_ops.kmem_cachep;
 
         ret = fib6_init();