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

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Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:45:16 +0200
From:	Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>
To:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	<sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>, <festevam@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: Initialize table in fib result

On 2015-09-16 18:19, Nikolay Aleksandrov 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>
Works for me as well. Thanks!

(Tested-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@...csson.com>)

Regards
Richard
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