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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: af_mpls: fix undefined reference to ip6_route_output
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 10:44:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150804074402.GA10867@mwanda> (raw)

Hello Roopa,

I have a concern about patch bf21563acc1d: "af_mpls: fix undefined
reference to ip6_route_output" from Jul 30, 2015.

net/mpls/af_mpls.c
   450  
   451          dev = find_outdev(net, cfg);
   452          if (IS_ERR(dev)) {

find_outdev() used to return NULL pointers but now it only returns NULL
if cfg->rc_via_table == NEIGH_LINK_TABLE or dev_get_by_index() fails.
I think it could lead to a NULL dereference and we don't check for that
here.

Returning a mix of error pointers and NULL is bad style, it needs a big
comment at the top of the function if it's deliberate.

   453                  err = PTR_ERR(dev);
   454                  dev = NULL;
   455                  goto errout;
   456          }

regards,
dan carpenter

             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-04  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-04  7:44 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-08-04 13:39 ` af_mpls: fix undefined reference to ip6_route_output roopa

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