Re: [PATCH][RFC] check fib6_lookup_1 return in fib6_lookup_1

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 16:44:52 EST


Em Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:27:56PM -0700, David S. Miller escreveu:
> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:34:22 -0300
> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
>
> fib6_lookup_1 can return NULL, please consider applying.
>
> (Note that CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES is never turned on :-)

heh

> I think more to the intent is to just continue the main search logic
> if it returns NULL at this spot, and hence is the change I have
> put into my sources.
>
> --- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c.~1~ Wed May 3 00:08:47 2000
> +++ net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c Mon Sep 11 17:26:03 2000
> @@ -638,10 +638,8 @@
> if (narg->addr) {
> st = fib6_lookup_1(fn->subtree, narg);
>
> - if (!(st->fn_flags & RTN_ROOT))
> - {
> + if (st && !(st->fn_flags & RTN_ROOT))
> return st;
> - }
> }
> }
> #endif

cool, spotted a problem and learned something. :-)

/me goes back to eyeballing code

- Arnaldo
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