netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: Initialize table in fib result

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Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:58:51 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com, richard.alpe@...csson.com,
	festevam@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: Initialize table in fib result

On 16/09/15 09:16, David Ahern wrote:
> The root cause is use of res.table uninitialized.
> 
> Thanks to Nikolay for noticing the uninitialized use amongst the maze of
> gotos.
> 
> As Nikolay pointed out the second initialization is not required to fix
> the oops, but rather to fix a related problem where a valid lookup should
> be invalidated before creating the rth entry.
> 
> Fixes: b7503e0cdb5d ("net: Add FIB table id to rtable")
> Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
> Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

There are enough Tested-by tags, but thanks for fixing this!
-- 
Florian
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