netdev - Re: ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:20:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	maheshb@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:40:11 +0300

> The patch 2ad7bf363841: "ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN
> driver." from Nov 23, 2014, leads to the following static checker
> warning:
> 
> 	drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:380 ipvlan_process_v6_outbound()
> 	warn: 'dst' isn't an ERR_PTR
> 
> drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
>    378  
>    379          dst = ip6_route_output(dev_net(dev), NULL, &fl6);
>    380          if (IS_ERR(dst))
>    381                  goto err;
> 
> The ip6_route_output() function is not documented but it always returns
> a valid pointer.  I believe you are supposed to check something like:
> 
> 		if (dst->error) {
> 			ret = dst->error;
> 			goto error;
> 		}
> 
>    382  
>    383          skb_dst_drop(skb);
>    384          skb_dst_set(skb, dst);

This is correct.
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