netdev - Re: [PATCH] test_bpf: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() check in test_skb

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Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:19:27 -0700
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
CC:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test_bpf: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() check in
 test_skb_segment()



On 3/28/18 4:48 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The skb_segment() function returns error pointers on error.  It never
> returns NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 76db8087c4c9 ("net: bpf: add a test for skb_segment in test_bpf module")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/lib/test_bpf.c b/lib/test_bpf.c
> index b2badf6b23cd..8e157806df7a 100644
> --- a/lib/test_bpf.c
> +++ b/lib/test_bpf.c
> @@ -6649,7 +6649,7 @@ static __init int test_skb_segment(void)
>   	}
>   
>   	segs = skb_segment(skb, features);
> -	if (segs) {
> +	if (!IS_ERR(segs)) {
>   		kfree_skb_list(segs);
>   		ret = 0;
>   		pr_info("%s: success in skb_segment!", __func__);

Oh, my bad. Thanks for the fix!
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>