From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754989AbdBPANs (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:13:48 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:53697 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754381AbdBOXOf (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:14:35 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "David S. Miller" , "WANG Cong" Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:40 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 227/306] neigh: check error pointer instead of NULL for ipv4_neigh_lookup() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: WANG Cong commit 2c1a4311b61072afe2309d4152a7993e92caa41c upstream. Fixes: commit f187bc6efb7250afee0e2009b6106 ("ipv4: No need to set generic neighbour pointer") Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/ipv4/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ static void __ip_do_redirect(struct rtab } n = ipv4_neigh_lookup(&rt->dst, NULL, &new_gw); - if (n) { + if (!IS_ERR(n)) { if (!(n->nud_state & NUD_VALID)) { neigh_event_send(n, NULL); } else {