netdev - Re: [PATCH] neigh: check error pointer instead of NULL for ipv4_neigh

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Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:35:03 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] neigh: check error pointer instead of NULL for ipv4_neigh_lookup()

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> Fixes: commit f187bc6efb7250afee0e2009b6106 ("ipv4: No need to set generic neighbour pointer")
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv4/route.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
> index 173e7ea..cbadb94 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
> @@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ static void __ip_do_redirect(struct rtable *rt, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flow
>         }
>
>         n = ipv4_neigh_lookup(&rt->dst, NULL, &new_gw);
> -       if (n) {
> +       if (!IS_ERR(n)) {
>                 if (!(n->nud_state & NUD_VALID)) {
>                         neigh_event_send(n, NULL);

assuming symptoms of this was a crash?
Could you share the stack trace to see how we got to this state ?
Or was it spotted just by code inspection?

Thanks!
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