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ipv6: fix return value check in fib6_add()

Message ID CAPgLHd9vdKJfj1yUqU+zDaH6PiuqY8ZG_V5B1py--NiDwa+WkA@mail.gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Wei Yongjun Sept. 21, 2012, 4:29 a.m. UTC 
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

In case of error, the function fib6_add_1() returns ERR_PTR()
or NULL pointer. The ERR_PTR() case check is missing in fib6_add().

dpatch engine is used to generated this patch.
(https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)



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Comments

David Miller Sept. 21, 2012, 5:44 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:29:56 +0800

> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
> 
> In case of error, the function fib6_add_1() returns ERR_PTR()
> or NULL pointer. The ERR_PTR() case check is missing in fib6_add().
> 
> dpatch engine is used to generated this patch.
> (https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

Applied, thanks.

Longer term fib6_add_1() should consistently return errno pointers,
rather than a mixture of NULL and errno pointers.
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diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index 13690d6..286acfc 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -819,6 +819,10 @@  int fib6_add(struct fib6_node *root, struct rt6_info *rt, struct nl_info *info)
 					offsetof(struct rt6_info, rt6i_src),
 					allow_create, replace_required);
 
+			if (IS_ERR(sn)) {
+				err = PTR_ERR(sn);
+				sn = NULL;
+			}
 			if (!sn) {
 				/* If it is failed, discard just allocated
 				   root, and then (in st_failure) stale node