netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: no need to return rt->dst.error if it is not null entry.

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:49:05 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: no need to return rt->dst.error if it is not
 null entry.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com> wrote:
> But what we want in inet6_rtm_getroute() and rt6_dump_route() is to
> get/dump the route info. So we should get the info even it's unreachable or
> prohibit.

If you want to dump prohibit/blackhole entry, then you have to check
for null_entry, and rt->dst.error check is still needed because we
could return error on other normal entries too, IOW, your v2 is correct
if dumping prohibit/blackhole is expected.

I thought we don't dump them. I am not sure about the behavior either.