netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/core: fixing dst_neigh_lookup/dst_neigh_lookup

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Message-Id: <20130313.103342.1152584686012875394.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:33:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zhouzhouyi@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: fixing dst_neigh_lookup/dst_neigh_lookup_skb
 caused kernel panic

From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:00:34 +0800

>  when neighbour table is full, dst_neigh_lookup/dst_neigh_lookup_skb
> will return -ENOBUFS which
> is absolutely non zero, while all the code in kernel which use above
> functions  assume failure only
> on zero return (I did a grep), which will cause kernel panic. (for
> example: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54731)
> 
>   This patch corrects above error with smallest changes to kernel source code.
> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@...il.com>

Your patch was corrupted by your email client.

Fix this, and only resend this patch once you are able to send a test
patch to yourself and cleanly apply the patch you receive.
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