From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Suspected Copy Paste error in rtnl_bridge_notify Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:47:12 -0500 Message-ID: <20140131114712.GB26148@htj.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Yogesh Gaur Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hey, Seems suspicious but I don't know the code at all. cc'ing David and netdev and quoting the whole body for them. Thanks. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:32:55AM +0530, Yogesh Gaur wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to clarify about following code-snippet from > file: "net/core/rtnetlink.c" > func: rtnl_bridge_notify > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | if ((!flags || (flags & BRIDGE_FLAGS_MASTER)) && | > | br_dev && br_dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink) { > | > | err = br_dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink(skb, 0, 0, dev, 0); > | > | if (err < 0) > | > | goto errout; > | > | } > | > | > | > | if ((flags & BRIDGE_FLAGS_SELF) && > | > | dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink) { > | > | err = dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink(skb, 0, 0, dev, 0); > | > | if (err < 0) > | > | goto errout; > | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > In above code isn't code line: > err = br_dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink(skb, 0, 0, dev, 0); > should be > err = br_dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink(skb, 0, 0, br_dev, 0); > > If this needs to be changed then please review attached patch adding this > change. -- tejun