If pim/igmp is not enabled on an interface, the ->info pointer will be
null. Need to check that before dereferencing it.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walton <dwalton@cumulusnetworks.com>
If you cut-n-paste an existing "ip igmp join 233.200.0.0 0.0.0.0"
command under an interface we should not return an error.
This fixes the broken indentation of several foreach loops throughout
the code.
From clang's documentation[1]:
ForEachMacros: A vector of macros that should be interpreted as foreach
loops instead of as function calls.
[1] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html
Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>
Start the conversion of pim configuration commands to use
the ferr side channel to allow more detailed information
to be returned to cli commands.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
All the rp debugs were a mish-mash of TRACE or ZEBRA,
but the reality they were all focused on handling NHT
issues associated with the RP's. So let's create
a new debug 'debug pim nht rp' if you are having
issues with RP's.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
If you read the extra fine print of the PIM RFC
it asks you to stop the PP Timer and the
Expiry Timer when you are certain S,G RPT states.
This commit puts this into practice and it also
deletes the S,G ifchannel if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com.
The changes introduced in PR #1044 caused pim to notice
when a setsockopt call failed. The kicker here is that
this used to just work because we ignored the issue
pre. So VRF's need to BINDTODEVICE to get igmp callbacks
but the default vrf does not need to do so.
With the fix we now see IGMP group join:
root@dell-s6000-02 ~/frr# vtysh -c "show ip igmp group"
Interface Address Group Mode Timer Srcs V Uptime
br1 20.0.11.1 232.2.3.4 EXCL 00:04:14 1 3 00:00:05
Fixes: #1121
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
This feature does this:
Add the ability to store the non-prefix static RP
entries into a table. Then to lookup the G to
find the RP in that table, finding the longest
prefix match across both prefix-lists and
static RP's.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we are searching for a RP to use, amongst
many RP's and separate prefix-lists, Match on
the longest prefix specified to choose the
correct RP.
Example:
ip pim rp 4.3.2.1 prefix-list A
ip pim rp 4.3.2.2 prefix-list B
ip pim rp 4.3.2.3 prefix-list C
ip prefix-list A seq 5 permit 225.0.0.0/8
ip prefix-list B seq 5 permit 225.1.0.0/16
ip prefix-list C seq 5 permit 225.1.1.0/24
Old behavior: Group 225.1.1.14 comes in and
we need to find the RP to use, we would match
on the first prefix-list A( since we are searching
based on a sorted link list of RP address ) and
select 4.3.2.1 as our RP
New behavior: Group 225.1.1.14 comes in and
we need to find theRP to use, we now will
match on C( longest prefix match ) and select
4.3.2.3 as our RP.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
There exists cases where we have not properly configured
a RP yet, but we are getting callbacks for nocache.
This is generating allot of spam messages in the log.
In the case where we attempt to lookup INADDR_NONE
just say it fails without need to talk to anyone
since we'll never get a real answer from zebra
anyways.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The commit '19b807c pimd: Allow the keepalive time to be per vrf.'
is missing some data. Probably as a result of the indentation
and I accidently dropped it.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
pim is vrf aware and the interface based line for vrf's was
not being started with a vrf_frame as the non interface
based line was.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Using the previously-added vty_frame() support, this gets rid of all the
pointless empty "interface XYZ" blocks that get added for any interface
that shows up in the system (e.g. dummys, tunnels, etc.)
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
Specifically, gcc 4.2.1 on OpenBSD 6.0 warns about these; they're bogus
(gcc 4.2, being rather old, isn't quite as "intelligent" as newer
versions; the newer ones apply more logic and less warnings.)
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
1) Error check return from setsockopt and sockets
2) Check return codes for str2prefix
3) Clean up some potential NULL References
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
1) Clean up display of S,GRPt prune state to be more meaningful
2) Upon receipt of a S,GRPt prune make sure we transition to
the correct state
3) Upon loss of a S,GRPt prune make sure we transition to
the correct state as well as immediately send a *,G
join upstream to propagate the loss of the prune.
4) Removal of a weird S,G state being installed upon
loss of a S,G RPt prune.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walton <dwalton@cumulusnetworks.com>
This could happen if routing isn't up yet but the command did take so we
should exit 0 here. Testing:
root@cel-redxp-10[frr-dwalton76]# vtysh -c 'conf t' -c' ip pim rp
11.11.11.11'
% No Path to RP address specified: 11.11.11.11
root@cel-redxp-10[frr-dwalton76]# echo $?
0
root@cel-redxp-10[frr-dwalton76]#
There exists a path for ifchannel creation that if a S,G
fails to create and a corresponding *,G ifchannel is there,
the S,G will be deleted but we were leaving the S,G in the
*,G ifchannel sources list. Remove from the list in this case
Ticket: CM-17605
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
BFD replay for all interfaces was only considering VRF_DEFAULT interface
list.
The change will walk all VRFs, interface list per VRF to register pim
neighbor with BFD.
Signed-off-by: Chirag shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
Upon frr restart vtysh replays pim bfd configuration
cli before pim sm command, this results in failure
of pim bfd config on the VIF as it is not pim enabled yet.
Inside pim bfd configuration, call to create PIM vif
handler if it is not created yet.
no ip pim bfd, if pim is not enabled display warning and return.
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
This does three things:
1) When we get a RPF_FAILURE, remove the mroute associated
with it.
-> This way when the RPF comes back we can just add the
mroute in as part of the normal scanning process.
2) When we do a ecmp_nexthop_search return 1 when we found
something we can use.
3) Ignore output from pim_update_rp_nh
-> When we do a ecmp_nexthop_search ignore the return
code and do not attempt to gather it up to return
to the calling function. It is just ignored
and we were not taking into account the what of
multiple RP's we were looking at.
Ticket: CM-17218
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
If a single S,G is being deleted because the keepalive
timer has timed out, Send a *,G join upstream to clear
the S,G RPT prune bit.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The secondary address list was being added/removed as
we went. I see no reason to have special bookkeeping
for this list. Just add it on interface startup and
then remove it on deletion. Removes some
very specialized coding that was saving a very small
amount of space.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
There are situations where we receive a *,G with
a S,G,RPT Prune embedded where we do not actually
have any S,G yet(MSDP with multiple RP's with the
same address). As such since we only need to
lookup the S,G ifchannel once, do it after
the recv_prune.
Ticket: CM-17230
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When a interface is flapped we were leaking some memory
associated with link lists. Especially in the jp_agg
code. If your network was/is stable and you are not
running at any scale you probably would not see this
as impactful at all.
Ticket: CM-16392
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The channel_oil has a back pointer(up) to the upstream data structure.
If we are planning on keeping the channel oil (due to ref count issues)
longer than keeping the upstream, when we delete the upstream we were
not clearing the back pointer to up. This would result in a situation
where if that memory has started to be used again it will cause a
crash and other fun things.
Ticket: CM-17092
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
This patch does two things:
1) Converts the pim_ifp->ifchannel_list to a pim_ifp->ifchannel_rb
2) Removes the hashing to use the RB RB_FIND instead.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Remove the redundant information in pim_ifp->pim_ifchannel_list
just call it pim_ifp->ifchannel_list
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The pim->ifchannel_list can be duplicated by iterating
over each vrf and then over each pim_ifp->pim_ifchannel_list
Since list handling is taking allot of time at scale
convert over to using this value.
Additionally clean up pim_cmd.c to have helper functions
to handle the actual encoding of data for output.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The NHT upstream list at scale is horribly inefficient due to keeping
a sorted list of upstream entries. The attempting to find
the upstream and the insertion of it into the upstream_list
was consuming a large amount of cpu cycles.
Convert to a hash, allow add/deletions to effectively become
O(1) events.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we receive a new ecmp path and the old nexthop is still
valid. There existed some cases where we would continue looking
for a nexthop( and thus loose the fact that we had found it )
after found.
Ticket: CM-16983
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Don Slice <dslice@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we receive a S,G,RPT prune as part of a *,G tree, install
the NULL oil S,G mroute. This will cause the traffic to stop
flowing for this particular S,G as we expect.
Ticket: CM-16978
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
'show ip mroute vrf all count' crashes currently
This commit fixes that issue
Ticket: CM-17052
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
During normal course of operations, zebra sends the ZEBRA_INTERFACE_VRF_UPDATE
call up into all connected zclients. In the case of PIM the
zlookup was expecting a min length of 10, but ZEBRA_INTERFACE_VRF_UPDATE
was sending of size 6. This min length check makes no sense,
so just remove.
Ticket: CM-16976
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Walton <dwalton@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we receive a SGRPT Prune we were switching the upstream
to JOINED and immediately sending a join. This was not
the right thing to do.
This was happening because we were making decisions about the
new ifchannel before it was fully formed.
Rework ifchannel startup to provide enough information to
the pim upstream data structure to make the right decisions
Ticket: CM-16425
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
In show ip pim interface and show ip pim interface <intf>
display State "down" pim enabled interfaces.
Ticket:CM-16809
Reviewed By:CCR-6398
Testing Done:
show ip pim interface
Interface State Address PIM Nbrs PIM DR FHR IfChannels
br1 up 2.0.1.1 0 local 0 0
lo up 6.0.0.1 0 local 0 0
pimreg up 0.0.0.0 0 local 0 0
swp1 down 6.0.1.1 0 local 0 0
swp2 up 6.0.2.1 1 local 0 0
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we receive a register message for an existing S,G
and the SPT bit is not set, then do a quick check against
the S,G to see if we have counters updated. This is added
because the existing S,G wheel_timer only updates every
31 seconds and it is possible for a Null Register to
have come in before that first 30 second timer pops.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Ensure that displayed (S,G) output in logs is
consistent for all debugs. This will make it
easier to grep for interesting data.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When the secondary addresses got expanded to allow
v6 on the list, we needed to limit the igmp sockets
to just v4 currently.
Ticket: CM-16858
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
Be aware that we may not have pim configured on all interfaces when
we have a failure situation.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we have vrf config that we have not fully setup yet,
(ie zebra knows nothing about it yet), when attempting to
do a nexthop_lookup, zebra will just drop the request
if it doesn't know about the vrf.
In this case, we need to safely not ask for the information
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we do not really have the vrf up, wisely do not attempt
to dereference the ifp looked up.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
It is possible that the incoming interface lookup
will fail because we are in transition from one vrf
to another.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Under vrf's pim needs to have a socket listening for pim packets on the vrf
device so that we can actually get the packets. As such when we configure
up a vrf interface, configure just enough to allow it to listen on the
device and to do the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we are initializing a pim socket for vrf or loopback
interfaces do not schedule a hello to go out at all.
I'm currently leaving the check on is a vrf / loopback
device on the actual send as that we have several paths
to get there.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
pim was the only routing daemon to have any knowledge
of how zebra connects to each daemon. There is no
need for this.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
In a vrf configuration, when we receive a pim packet we lookup
the correct incoming interface. There exists a chance that
the correct incoming interface has not been configured to use
pim yet. gracefully bow out and do nothing with the packet.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The pimregX devices when created by the kernel are put into
the default vrf. When pim gets the callback that the device
exists, check to see if it is a pimregX device and if so
move it into the appropriate vrf.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When shutting down the vrf don't kill the default vrf
when attempting to cleanup something else.
Also move the terminate to the right spot.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The vrf interface is receiving the pim packet
instead of the slave interface that is bound.
Lookup the ifindex ifp pointer from that.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Bind the pim kernel fd to the appropriate vrf, modify
the callback up into pim with the IGMP report to
retrieve the incoming interface and use that to
lookup the correct interface to use.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Fix the instance startup to allow separation between the data structure
setup for pim instances from actual attempt to use. More than
likely there will be other issues that need to be fixed but
this gets us 'working' again.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
pim_msdp_pkt_sa_gen is intentionally passed mp as NULL
in some cases, so we need to pass through the pim instance
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The vrf loopback ip address should be associated with the
vrf device for vrf's, else use the loopback.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Move the upstream_list, hash and wheel into 'struct pim_instance'
Remove all pimg to pim in pim_upstream
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
A bunch of functions had return values that were never
checked for ( and not needed ) and opposite return values
for proper calling function boolean logic.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
1) Create pim_instance.[ch] to allow us to handle the instance information there
2) Refactor some pim_rpf_ and some pim_rp commands into appropriate files and
appropriate includes.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
As a transitory mechanism, if c_oil->pim is set, use that particular
pim instance, else use the default pimg.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The pimreg device name should be based upon the
tableid we create( as that this is what the kernel does )
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Storing the pim instance off of the pim interface will allow
us to easily keep track of vrf information. This is because
pretty much is everything is interface based.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we are handling the thread read/writes for
a pim mroute socket, make it so that it can
be appropriately handled by the 'struct pim_instance'
instead of defaulting to the default VRF's
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
This commit does these things:
1) Saves the pim instance created on the vrf pointer
2) Moves some initialization to the proper spot.
3) Remove vrf_id from 'struct pim_ssm' it is not needed
4) Removes some checks to prevent non-default vrf's from
being created.
5) When creating the pim instance, save default vrf in pimg to allow backwards compatibility
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
This change allows other non-linux platforms to be a bit
more forgiving if we ask for a very very large size.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
Convert the socket fd to be owned by the pimg pointer as
well as the counters associated with the fd. This will
allow us to future proof our code.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
This reverts commit c14777c6bf.
clang 5 is not widely available enough for people to indent with. This
is particularly problematic when rebasing/adjusting branches.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walton <dwalton@cumulusnetworks.com>
This allows frr-reload.py (or anything else that scripts via vtysh)
to know if the vtysh command worked or hit an error.
During running config, all IFPs are traversed, bfd interface config write
need to check for ifp->info null in case pim info is missing and skip the interface.
bfd update for address change need to check if particular pim neighbor's address matches
with bfd address update
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
In prep for switching over to having PIM understand VRF
remove the qpim_inaddr_any global variable and just
use INADDR_ANY directly.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The secondary address comparison done to determine if we are
an RP for a specified address was comparing A.B.C.D/32 to A.B.C.D/0
because when we created the rp_info we were not setting the prefixlen
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
-Upon Rx (*,G) Join w/o SGRpt at RP, trigger (S,G) Join
towards FHR, unset SGRpt flag from channel,
add (*,G) oif to (S,G) entry.
-Add I am not RP check to triger SGRpt on *,G path otherwise,
send S,G Prune on SPT path from RP to FHR upon receving *,G Prune.
-Upon Rx SGRpt receive, remove OIF(downstream where Prune received) from specific S,G.
Testing Done:
pim-smoke
Ran 95 tests in 11790.552s
FAILED (SKIP=10, failures=4)
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
The indentation of ifjoin_to_noinfo was not consistent with
the rest of the function and caused clang to loose it's mind
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The indentation of ifjoin_to_noinfo was not consistent with
the rest of the function and caused clang to loose it's mind
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
All PIM Neighbors for a given pim interface is registered with
BFD.
Upon receiving BFD status down event, PIM Neighbor with BFD info is deleted.
Add pim bfd configuraiton (CLI) per interface, '[no] ip pim bfd'
Testing Done:
Configure BFD under PIM interface on all neighbor routers,
check bfd sessions up, remote end unconfigure BFD, results in BFD session down.
Previous state was UP to New state DOWN, results in PIM neighbor delete behind
that particular pim interface.
Pim-smoke Results:
Ran 94 tests in 7409.680s
FAILED (SKIP=8, failures=2)
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we add a thread pointer to thread_add_XXX functions
when the specified function is called, thread.c is setting
the thread pointer to NULL. This was causing pim to
liberally pull it's zassert grenade pin's.
Additionally clean up code to not set the NULL pointer.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
pim register_recv api returns 1 instead of 0 upon succesfully processing REG message
Testing Done:
Verified At RP via receiving PIM (Data/Null) Register messages
and checked show ip pim interface < > Received errors under Hello
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
If frr.conf file has pim hello option setup prior to pim sm under an interface, upon frr start/restart hello option cli replayed prior to sm command
from vtysh. Added a code in pim hello option cli handler to create pim vif if it does not exist.
Testing Done:
configure pim hello options before pim sm in frr.conf file and restart frr
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
Send IGMP General Query and Get Gen. Query timer,
once Other Querier timer expired.
Ticket:CM-13152
Reviewed By:CCR-6189
Testing Done:
tor-4# show ip igmp interface
Interface State Address V Querier Query Timer Uptime
swp2 up 70.1.1.2 3 other --:--:-- 00:06:45
swp3 up 80.1.1.2 3 local 00:00:35 00:22:52
Upon disabling IGMP on remote igmp interface, after other querier expiry
sends a query and elects as Querier
tor-4# show ip igmp interface
Interface State Address V Querier Query Timer Uptime
swp2 up 70.1.1.2 3 local 00:01:29 00:10:16
swp3 up 80.1.1.2 3 local 00:01:14 00:26:23
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
-Upon Receving SGRpt Prune message, transitioning from Prune Pending state
to NOINFO state, ifchannel entry was getting deleted in prune pending timer
expiry. This can result in SGRpt ifhchannel deleted and recreated upon receving
triggered or periodic SGRpt received from downstream.
The automation test failed as it expected (check) SGRpt entry at RP after it triggers
SPT switchover.
- While transitioning from Prune-Pending state to NOINFO(Pruned) state, Trigger
SGRpt message towards RP.
- Add/del some of the debug traces
Ticket:CM-16057
Reviewed By:CCR-6198
Testing Done:
Rerun test08 multiple times and observed passing it.
Pim-smoke with hardnode
Ran 95 tests in 11219.420s
FAILED (SKIP=10, failures=4)
Signed-off-by: Chirag Shah <chirag@cumulusnetworks.com>
When we have no normal mroutes and only static mroutes
there exists a code path where we attempted to dereference
c_oil when we were showing static mroutes. Looks like
a cut-n-paste error, we should be using s_route->c_oil there
Ticket: CM-15013
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
We only needed to add/change the vrf callbacks when we initialize
the vrf subsystem. As such it is not necessary to handle the callbacks
in any other way than through the init function.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
vrf_iflist_create -> By the time this is called in enable, the vrf's iflist
is already created. Additionally this code should be a properly of the vrf
to init/destroy not someone else.
vrf_iflist_terminate -> This function should be a property of vrf deletion
and does not need to be exposed.
Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com>
The FSF's address changed, and we had a mixture of comment styles for
the GPL file header. (The style with * at the beginning won out with
580 to 141 in existing files.)
Note: I've intentionally left intact other "variations" of the copyright
header, e.g. whether it says "Zebra", "Quagga", "FRR", or nothing.
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
Pass pointer to pointer instead of assigning by return value. See
previous commit message.
To ensure that the behavior stays functionally correct, any assignments
with the result of a thread_add* function have been transformed to set
the pointer to null before passing it. These can be removed wherever the
pointer is known to already be null.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com>
