linux-kernel - Re: [netfilter-core] [PATCH] netfilter: unnecessary to check whether ip6_route

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Date:	Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:53:42 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [netfilter-core] [PATCH] netfilter: unnecessary to check whether
 ip6_route_output() returns NULL

On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 10:03:33PM +0800, Haishuang Yan wrote:
> ip6_route_output() never returns NULL, so it is not appropriate to
> check if the return value is NULL.

Applied, thanks.