Re: [PATCH] fix NULL pointer + success return in route lookup path

From: Alexey Kuznetsov <redacted>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:59:50 +0400

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:43:15AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:

quoted

Maybe it can work, but it needs a thorough checking now and adds a new
code path to track later while looking for bugs. So, I wonder if it's
not better to link such dsts in rt_intern_hash anyway, probably as a
separate list, scanned only for expired entries.

Such a list already exists, it is gc list in core/dst.c.

The fix to the problem could be replacing rt_drop() with rt_free()
(adding rt_free() after the patch, which deleted rt_drop()), something like:

	if (!rt_caching(dev_net(rt->u.dst.dev))) {
		/* ..... */
+		rt_free(rt);
		goto report_and_exit;
	}

rt_free() will put the route on that gc list and it will be releases
as soon as refcnt becomes 0.

That should work.

Can someone put together a formal patch and give it at least
a quick test?

Thanks!