From 49a88d18a1721ac14dbc67cd390db18ee1f3a42f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:06:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: ip6tables regression fix

Commit 7845447 (netfilter: iptables: lock free counters) broke
ip6_tables by unconditionally returning ENOMEM in alloc_counters(),

Reported-by: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
---
 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
index dfed176aed37..800ae8542471 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c
@@ -1033,6 +1033,8 @@ static struct xt_counters *alloc_counters(struct xt_table *table)
 
 	xt_free_table_info(info);
 
+	return counters;
+
  free_counters:
 	vfree(counters);
  nomem:
-- 
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