linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: bonding: fix error return code of bond_neigh

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Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:55:04 +0100
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Roi Dayan <roid@...dia.com>, Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>,
        j.vosburgh@...il.com, vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bonding: fix error return code of bond_neigh_init()



On 3/10/21 10:24 AM, Roi Dayan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2021-03-08 5:11 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>> When slave is NULL or slave_ops->ndo_neigh_setup is NULL, no error
>> return code of bond_neigh_init() is assigned.
>> To fix this bug, ret is assigned with -EINVAL in these cases.
>>
>> Fixes: 9e99bfefdbce ("bonding: fix bond_neigh_init()")
>> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@...nghua.edu.cn>
>> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 8 ++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> index 74cbbb22470b..456315bef3a8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> @@ -3978,11 +3978,15 @@ static int bond_neigh_init(struct neighbour *n)
>>         rcu_read_lock();
>>       slave = bond_first_slave_rcu(bond);
>> -    if (!slave)
>> +    if (!slave) {
>> +        ret = -EINVAL;
>>           goto out;
>> +    }
>>       slave_ops = slave->dev->netdev_ops;
>> -    if (!slave_ops->ndo_neigh_setup)
>> +    if (!slave_ops->ndo_neigh_setup) {
>> +        ret = -EINVAL;
>>           goto out;
>> +    }
>>         /* TODO: find another way [1] to implement this.
>>        * Passing a zeroed structure is fragile,
>>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This breaks basic functionally that always worked. A slave doesn't need
> to exists nor to implement ndo_neigh_setup.
> Now trying to add a neigh entry because of that fails.
> This commit needs to be reverted.
> 
> Thanks,
> Roi

Agreed, this commit made no sense, please revert.