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From: Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge:Fix incorrect variable assignment on error path in br_sysfs_addbr
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:16:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5702CBAD.1030900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160404.161418.1551441547560943567.davem@davemloft.net>



On 2016-04-04 04:14 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun,  3 Apr 2016 19:04:26 -0400
> 
>> This fixes the incorrect variable assignment on error path in
>> br_sysfs_addbr for when the call to kobject_create_and_add
>> fails to assign the value of -EINVAL to the returned variable of
>> err rather then incorrectly return zero making callers think this
>> function has succeededed due to the previous assignment being
>> assigned zero when assigning it the successful return value of
>> the call to sysfs_create_group which is zero.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@gmail.com>
> 
> Applied, but please put a space after the subsystem prefix and the
> colon character in your subject lines in the future.
> 
> Doesn't that really look odd to you, the way you did it? "net:Fix"?
> 
> Doesn't it look more natural, and consistent with what all other
> patch submitters do, if it's "net: Fix"?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Done, sorry about that :(. Will remember for future patches.
Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-04 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-03 23:04 [PATCH] bridge:Fix incorrect variable assignment on error path in br_sysfs_addbr Bastien Philbert
2016-04-04 20:14 ` David Miller
2016-04-04 20:16   ` Bastien Philbert [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-16 18:31 Nicholas Krause
2016-03-13  2:46 Nicholas Krause

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