From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bastienphilbert@gmail.com
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, 04 Apr 2016 16:14:18 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160404.161418.1551441547560943567.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459724666-3666-1-git-send-email-bastienphilbert@gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-04 20:14 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 [this message]
2016-04-04 20:16 ` Bastien Philbert
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2016-03-16 18:31 Nicholas Krause
2016-03-13 2:46 Nicholas Krause
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