On 28/05/2020 17:53, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 28/05/2020 17:51, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The allocation failure check for nhg->spare is currently checking
>> the pointer nhg rather than nhg->spare which is never false. Fix
>> this by checking nhg->spare instead.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Logically dead code")
>> Fixes: 430a049190de ("nexthop: Add support for nexthop groups")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
>> index ebafa5ed91ac..97423d6f2de9 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c
>> @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ static struct nexthop *nexthop_create_group(struct net *net,
>>
>> /* spare group used for removals */
>> nhg->spare = nexthop_grp_alloc(num_nh);
>> - if (!nhg) {
>> + if (!nhg->spare) {
>> kfree(nhg);
>> kfree(nh);
>> return NULL;
>>
>
> Good catch, embarrassing copy paste error :-/
> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
Wait - that should be targeted at -net, that's where the fixes went.
And the fixes tag is wrong, nhg->spare was very recently added by:
commit 90f33bffa382
Author: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 26 12:56:15 2020 -0600
nexthops: don't modify published nexthop groups
