netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net] sctp: return back transport in __sctp_rcv_init

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 08:51:55 -0200
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net] sctp: return back transport in
 __sctp_rcv_init_lookup

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:42:35AM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> Prior to this patch, it used a local variable to save the transport that is
> looked up by __sctp_lookup_association(), and didn't return it back. But in
> sctp_rcv, it is used to initialize chunk->transport. So when hitting this,
> even if it found the transport, it was still initializing chunk->transport
> with null instead.
> 
> This patch is to return the transport back through transport pointer
> that is from __sctp_rcv_lookup_harder().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
> ---

Patch looks good now but you have to either repost the entire series
altogether, or repost the series to remove this patch from it.

  Marcelo