netdev - Re: kernel panic in fib6_age (linux-3.6.6) and sugguested fix

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Message-ID: <CAABZP2xW7z+AXReRHfiMyrSP6gBkzPJOG4oAm6xZK+KCsBYvdw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Mar 2013 14:58:42 +0800
From:	Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel panic in fib6_age (linux-3.6.6) and sugguested fix

> How about this one below? without modifying the return value:
>                         __u8 neigh_flags = 0;
>
>
>                         neigh = dst_neigh_lookup(&rt->dst,
> &rt->rt6i_gateway);
> -                       if (neigh) {
> +                       if (!IS_ERR(neigh)) {
>
>                                 neigh_flags = neigh->flags;
>                                 neigh_release(neigh);
>                         }
you are correct, this one avoid breaking out of the process of the fib
table traveling

Zhouyi
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