On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 19:48 +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to top post because comments are unrelated to past discussion.
>
> rdma_ah_retrieve_dmac() can never fail for RoCE as its returning
> pointer from structure ah_attr.
> Provider driver doesn't need to check for null pointer as ib/core
> would never call provider if it's not RoCE provider.
> So this memory leak only exist in theory.
>
> When its null, driver should WARN_ON/BUG_ON in extreme case, but
> that's not necessary either.
>
> I have patch is progress under internal review that does nice small
> cleanup in many provider drivers that eliminates the check
> completely.
> Waiting for Moni to finish the review.
This sounds like a nice patch to push into for-next, but in the
meantime I took the V2 of this patch as it silences a checker warning.
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