Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: fib: Remove unnecessary encap_type check

From: Yue Haibing
Date: Tue Jun 24 2025 - 21:48:43 EST


On 2025/6/25 2:26, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> lwtunnel_build_state() has check validity of encap_type,
>> so no need to do this before call it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 8 --------
>> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
>> index f7c9c6a9f53e..475ffcbf4927 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
>> @@ -625,11 +625,6 @@ int fib_nh_common_init(struct net *net, struct fib_nh_common *nhc,
>> if (encap) {
>> struct lwtunnel_state *lwtstate;
>>
>> - if (encap_type == LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_NONE) {
>> - NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "LWT encap type not specified");
>> - err = -EINVAL;
>> - goto lwt_failure;
>> - }
>> err = lwtunnel_build_state(net, encap_type, encap,
>> nhc->nhc_family, cfg, &lwtstate,
>> extack);
>> @@ -890,9 +885,6 @@ static int fib_encap_match(struct net *net, u16 encap_type,
>> struct lwtunnel_state *lwtstate;
>> int ret, result = 0;
>>
>> - if (encap_type == LWTUNNEL_ENCAP_NONE)
>> - return 0;
>
> Now this condition returns -EINVAL, which confuses fib_encap_match(), no ?

Right, sorry for overlook this, will restore in v2.

>
>
>> -
>> ret = lwtunnel_build_state(net, encap_type, encap, AF_INET,
>> cfg, &lwtstate, extack);
>> if (!ret) {
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
>