netdev - Re: [net PATCH] fib_trie: leaf_walk_rcu should not compute key if key is less than pn->key

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Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:15:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	aduyck@...antis.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, brak@...eservers.com
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] fib_trie: leaf_walk_rcu should not compute key if
 key is less than pn->key

From: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:06:45 -0700

> We were computing the child index in cases where the key value we were
> looking for was actually less than the base key of the tnode.  As a result
> we were getting incorrect index values that would cause us to skip over
> some children.
> 
> To fix this I have added a test that will force us to use child index 0 if
> the key we are looking for is less than the key of the current tnode.
> 
> Fixes: 8be33e955cb9 ("fib_trie: Fib walk rcu should take a tnode and key instead of a trie and a leaf")
> Reported-by: Brian Rak <brak@...eservers.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@...antis.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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