netdev - Re: Suspicious pattern for use of function xt_register

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Date:   Mon, 23 Aug 2021 21:10:33 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, coreteam@...filter.org,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Suspicious pattern for use of function xt_register_template()

Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
> Dear Florian, dear netfilter maintainers,
> 
> Commit fdacd57c79b ("netfilter: x_tables: never register tables by
> default") on linux-next
> introduces the function xt_register_template() and in all cases but
> one, the calls to that function are followed by:
> 
>     if (ret < 0)
>         return ret;
> 
> All these checks were also added with the commit above.
> 
> In the one case, for iptable_mangle_init() in
> ./net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_mangle.c, this pattern was not followed.

Thats a bug, the error test is missing.