* to explore inner IPv6 header, eg. ICMPv6 error messages.
*
* If target header is found, its offset is set in *offset and return protocol
- * number. Otherwise, return -1.
+ * number. Otherwise, return -ENOENT or -EBADMSG.
*
* If the first fragment doesn't contain the final protocol header or
* NEXTHDR_NONE it is considered invalid.
*
* Note that non-1st fragment is special case that "the protocol number
* of last header" is "next header" field in Fragment header. In this case,
- * *offset is meaningless and fragment offset is stored in *fragoff if fragoff
- * isn't NULL.
+ * *offset is meaningless. If fragoff is not NULL, the fragment offset is
+ * stored in *fragoff; if it is NULL, return -EINVAL.
*
* if flags is not NULL and it's a fragment, then the frag flag
* IP6_FH_F_FRAG will be set. If it's an AH header, the
if (target < 0 &&
((!ipv6_ext_hdr(hp->nexthdr)) ||
hp->nexthdr == NEXTHDR_NONE)) {
- if (fragoff)
+ if (fragoff) {
*fragoff = _frag_off;
- return hp->nexthdr;
+ return hp->nexthdr;
+ } else {
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
}
return -ENOENT;
}