netdev - Re: ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:40:44 -0800
From:	Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com, linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:20 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:40:11 +0300
>
>> The patch 2ad7bf363841: "ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN
>> driver." from Nov 23, 2014, leads to the following static checker
>> warning:
>>
>>       drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:380 ipvlan_process_v6_outbound()
>>       warn: 'dst' isn't an ERR_PTR
>>
>> drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
>>    378
>>    379          dst = ip6_route_output(dev_net(dev), NULL, &fl6);
>>    380          if (IS_ERR(dst))
>>    381                  goto err;
>>
>> The ip6_route_output() function is not documented but it always returns
>> a valid pointer.  I believe you are supposed to check something like:
>>
>>               if (dst->error) {
>>                       ret = dst->error;
>>                       goto error;
>>               }
>>
>>    382
>>    383          skb_dst_drop(skb);
>>    384          skb_dst_set(skb, dst);
>
> This is correct.

Thanks Dan for pointing it out. I'll send a patch correcting that code.
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