Re: [PATCH] net: mellanox: mlxsw: fix error return code of mlxsw_sp_router_nve_promote_decap()

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 06.03.2021 15:07, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> When fib_entry is NULL, no error return code of
> mlxsw_sp_router_nve_promote_decap() is assigned.
> To fix this bug, err is assigned with -EINVAL in this case.
> 
Again, are you sure this is a bug? To me it looks like it is
intentional to not return an error code if fib_entry is NULL.
Please don't blindly trust the robot results, there may
always be false positives.

> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
> index 9ce90841f92d..7b260e25df1b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
> @@ -1981,8 +1981,10 @@ int mlxsw_sp_router_nve_promote_decap(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp, u32 ul_tb_id,
>  	fib_entry = mlxsw_sp_router_ip2me_fib_entry_find(mlxsw_sp, ul_tb_id,
>  							 ul_proto, ul_sip,
>  							 type);
> -	if (!fib_entry)
> +	if (!fib_entry) {
> +		err = -EINVAL;
>  		goto out;
> +	}
>  
>  	fib_entry->decap.tunnel_index = tunnel_index;
>  	fib_entry->type = MLXSW_SP_FIB_ENTRY_TYPE_NVE_DECAP;
>