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Re: [PATCH][V2] flow dissector: check if arp_eth is null rather than arp

From Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH][V2] flow dissector: check if arp_eth is null rather than arp
Date 2017-01-13 20:10 +0100
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On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 18:48 +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> arp is being checked instead of arp_eth to see if the call to
> __skb_header_pointer failed. Fix this by checking arp_eth is
> null instead of arp.   Also fix to use length hlen rather than
> hlen - sizeof(_arp); thanks to Eric Dumazet for spotting
> this latter issue.
> 
> CoverityScan CID#1396428 ("Logically dead code") on 2nd
> arp comparison (which should be arp_eth instead).
> 
> Fixes: commit 55733350e5e8b70c5 ("flow disector: ARP support")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Thanks !

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[PATCH][V2] flow dissector: check if arp_eth is null rather than arp Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> - 2017-01-13 19:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH][V2] flow dissector: check if arp_eth is null rather  than arp Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-13 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH][V2] flow dissector: check if arp_eth is null rather  than arp David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-01-16 19:50 +0100

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