netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: do not pr_err for the duplicated node in transport rhlist

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Date:   Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:29:04 -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, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: do not pr_err for the duplicated node in
 transport rhlist

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 06:29:06PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> The pr_err in sctp_hash_transport was supposed to report a sctp bug
> for using rhashtable/rhlist.
> 
> The err '-EEXIST' introduced in Commit cd2b70875058 ("sctp: check
> duplicate node before inserting a new transport") doesn't belong
> to that case.
> 
> So just return -EEXIST back without pr_err any kmsg.
> 
> Fixes: cd2b70875058 ("sctp: check duplicate node before inserting a new transport")
> Reported-by: Wei Chen <weichen@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

> ---
>  net/sctp/input.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/input.c b/net/sctp/input.c
> index 141c9c4..0247cc4 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/input.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/input.c
> @@ -897,15 +897,12 @@ int sctp_hash_transport(struct sctp_transport *t)
>  	rhl_for_each_entry_rcu(transport, tmp, list, node)
>  		if (transport->asoc->ep == t->asoc->ep) {
>  			rcu_read_unlock();
> -			err = -EEXIST;
> -			goto out;
> +			return -EEXIST;
>  		}
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>  	err = rhltable_insert_key(&sctp_transport_hashtable, &arg,
>  				  &t->node, sctp_hash_params);
> -
> -out:
>  	if (err)
>  		pr_err_once("insert transport fail, errno %d\n", err);
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.0
>