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

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Jan 13 2017 - 14:02:38 EST


On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 18:48 +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks !