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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][IPV6]: Make sure fib6_rule_lookup doesn't return NULL
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:16:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060808221651.GS14627@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D90AA0.1000408@tcs.hut.fi>

* Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> 2006-08-09 01:05
>     [IPV6]: Make sure fib6_rule_lookup doesn't return NULL
>     
>     The callers of fib6_rule_lookup don't expect it to return NULL,
>     therefore it must return ip6_null_entry whenever fib_rule_lookup fails.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi>

I think it would be a lot cleaner to return an error code
like fib_lookup() and save the atomic operations. We only
destroy the dst again anyway in case of a failure.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 22:05 [PATCH][IPV6]: Make sure fib6_rule_lookup doesn't return NULL Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-08 22:16 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2006-08-08 23:43   ` David Miller
2006-08-09  6:31     ` Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-09  6:34       ` David Miller
2006-08-09  8:36         ` Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-09  9:23           ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-09  9:42             ` Ville Nuorvala
2006-08-09  9:48               ` Thomas Graf
2006-08-09 10:45                 ` Ville Nuorvala

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