On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 01:49:44AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
>
> That is what I though originally as well, but I was not convinced. While
> reading the code, I understood that, if new_tbl is not NULL, then
> PTR_ERR(data) will be -ENOENT.
> 
> In which case `net_tbl` will not be NULL, and PTR_ERR(data) != -ENOENT?

The bug arises when an insertion succeeds.  So new_tbl is NULL.
The original value of data should have been -ENOENT, however,
it gets overwritten after rhashtable_insert_one (data is now
NULL).

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