From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4] ipv6: Allocate unique metrics for icmp6 packets to prevent tainting dst metrics Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:04:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120319.180415.1274216814977167410.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4F64B203.40307@network-box.com> <1332002201.19406.25.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <4F64CD4B.4070203@network-box.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: nick.jones@network-box.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:39741 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756795Ab2CSWEY (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:04:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F64CD4B.4070203@network-box.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Nick Jones Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:43:39 +0800 > + return ERR_CAST(-ENOMEM); Really, please, stop wasting my time. There is no way your compiler didn't emit a warning for that garbage. Furthermore, callers are only ready to handle NULL vs. non-NULL as return values from this function. So this return value you are adding will result in crashes.