tree b8b7eed2c10d5b8901891348ce80a57027cc5dd5
parent bebb2a473a43c8f84a8210687d1cbdde503046d7
author Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com> 1495525725 +0300
committer Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> 1500306342 -0400

IB/core: Don't resolve IP address to the loopback device

When resolving an IP address that is on the host of the caller the
result from querying the routing table is the loopback device. This is
not a valid response, because it doesn't represent the RDMA device and
the port.

Therefore, callers need to check the resolved device and if it is a
loopback device find an alternative way to resolve it. To avoid this we
make sure that the response from rdma_resolve_ip() will not be the
loopback device.

While that, we fix an static checker warning about dereferencing an
unintitialized pointer using the same solution as in commit abeffce90c7f
("net/mlx5e: Fix a -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning") as a reference.

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>