[ 19/36] pktgen: correctly handle failures when adding a device

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-02-12T20:48:00Z

From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 604dfd6efc9b79bce432f2394791708d8e8f6efc ]

The return value of pktgen_add_device() is not checked, so
even if we fail to add some device, for example, non-exist one,
we still see "OK:...". This patch fixes it.

After this patch, I got:

# echo "add_device non-exist" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
-bash: echo: write error: No such device
# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
Running:
Stopped:
Result: ERROR: can not add device non-exist
# echo "add_device eth0" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
Running:
Stopped: eth0
Result: OK: add_device=eth0

(Candidate for -stable)

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/core/pktgen.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -1802,10 +1802,13 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_thread_write(struc
return -EFAULT;
i += len;
mutex_lock(&pktgen_thread_lock);
- pktgen_add_device(t, f);
+ ret = pktgen_add_device(t, f);
mutex_unlock(&pktgen_thread_lock);
- ret = count;
- sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f);
+ if (!ret) {
+ ret = count;
+ sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f);
+ } else
+ sprintf(pg_result, "ERROR: can not add device %s", f);
goto out;
}