netdev - Re: [net PATCH] net: sched: Fix one possible panic when no destroy callback

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:50:11 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     gfree.wind@....163.com, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] net: sched: Fix one possible panic when no destroy
 callback

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 09:30 -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 6:35 PM,  <gfree.wind@....163.com> wrote:
> > From: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@....163.com>
> >
> > When qdisc fail to init, qdisc_create would invoke the destroy callback
> > to cleanup. But there is no check if the callback exists really. So it
> > would cause the panic if there is no real destroy callback like these
> > qdisc codel, pfifo, pfifo_fast, and so on.
> >
> > Now add one the check for destroy to avoid the possible panic.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <gfree.wind@....163.com>
> 
> Looks good,
> 
> Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> 
> This is introduced by commit 87b60cfacf9f17cf71933c6e33b.
> Please add proper Fixes tag next time.

Given that pfifo, pfifo_fast or codel can not fail their init,
I do not see this patch as a net candidate, and the Fixes: tag seems not
needed.

Gao, have you really hit a bug, or is this patch some kind of cleanup or
prep work ?

If yes, please properly identify which packet scheduler had an issue.

Thanks.