Fix dst_neigh_lookup/dst_neigh_lookup_skb return value handling bug
When neighbour table is full, dst_neigh_lookup/dst_neigh_lookup_skb will return
-ENOBUFS which is absolutely non zero, while all the code in kernel which use
above functions assume failure only on zero return which will cause panic. (for
example: : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54731).
This patch corrects above error with smallest changes to kernel source code and
also correct two return value check missing bugs in drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c
Tested on my x86_64 SMP machine
Reported-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index 853cda1..1f8fd10 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -413,13 +413,15 @@
static inline struct neighbour *dst_neigh_lookup(const struct dst_entry *dst, const void *daddr)
{
- return dst->ops->neigh_lookup(dst, NULL, daddr);
+ struct neighbour *n = dst->ops->neigh_lookup(dst, NULL, daddr);
+ return IS_ERR(n) ? NULL : n;
}
static inline struct neighbour *dst_neigh_lookup_skb(const struct dst_entry *dst,
struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- return dst->ops->neigh_lookup(dst, skb, NULL);
+ struct neighbour *n = dst->ops->neigh_lookup(dst, skb, NULL);
+ return IS_ERR(n) ? NULL : n;
}
static inline void dst_link_failure(struct sk_buff *skb)