No. there is no need any more.  An incremental patch is attached that
removes all the tbl->mask_list checks. I have also rolled the last 3
patches in to a single one in case it is useful.


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:

> Do we need any of the tests for tbl->mask_list at this point if we
> always allocate a list head?
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > O.K.  How about the attached incremental patch?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> wrote:
> >> > When flow table is copied, the mask list from the old table
> >> > is not properly copied into the new table. The corrupted mask
> >> > list in the new table will lead to kernel crash. This patch
> >> > fixes this bug.
> >> >
> >> > Bug #18110
> >> > Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com>
> >>
> >> Can we just allocate the mask list head when we create v1 of the
> >> table? I think that would eliminate a lot of conditions and also allow
> >> us to return -ENOMEM up front rather than silent failing later on.
> >
> >
>

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