On 28/05/2020 15:55, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > 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 > Do you require me to fix this up and re-send? Colin