Re: Suspicious pattern for use of function xt_register_template()

[Florian Westphal]

Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Florian, dear netfilter maintainers,
> 
> Commit fdacd57c79b ("netfilter: x_tables: never register tables by
> default") on linux-next
> introduces the function xt_register_template() and in all cases but
> one, the calls to that function are followed by:
> 
>     if (ret < 0)
>         return ret;
> 
> All these checks were also added with the commit above.
> 
> In the one case, for iptable_mangle_init() in
> ./net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_mangle.c, this pattern was not followed.

Thats a bug, the error test is missing.