netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: reset ret in again path in sctp_for_each

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:22:46 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: reset ret in again path in
 sctp_for_each_transport

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:22:25 +0800

> Commit 97a6ec4ac021 ("rhashtable: Change rhashtable_walk_start to
> return void") only initialized ret for the first time, when going
> to again path, the next tsp could be NULL. Without resetting ret,
> cb_done would be called with tsp as NULL.
> 
> A kernel crash was caused by this when running sctpdiag testcase
> in sctp-tests.
> 
> Note that this issue doesn't affect net.git yet.
> 
> Fixes: 97a6ec4ac021 ("rhashtable: Change rhashtable_walk_start to return void")
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.