On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 08:07 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> resolved_dev returned might be NULL as ifindex is transient number.
> Ignoring NULL check of resolved_dev might crash the kernel.
> Therefore perform NULL check before accessing resolved_dev.
>
> Additionally rdma_resolve_ip_route() invokes addr_resolve() which
> performs check and address translation for loopback ifindex.
> Therefore, checking it again in rdma_resolve_ip_route() is not helpful.
> Therefore, the code is simplified to avoid IFF_LOOPBACK check.
>
> Fixes: 200298326b27 ("IB/core: Validate route when we init ah")
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Thanks, applied to for-rc.
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