Subject: Re: [Question] Dead code in rawv6_mh_filter_register()?

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:04:35 -0800

On Sun,  1 Feb 2026 00:02:12 +0900 Ingyu Jang wrote:
> Since rawv6_mh_filter_register() never fails, this error path
> appears to be dead code. The same applies to
> rawv6_mh_filter_unregister() in mip6_fini().

Please do not send such reports for networking.
register and alloc functions should always be assumed to
need error handling, so that we don't have to fix all
the callers once they do and check why there's no error 
checking when reviewing the code..