From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Moore Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] tun: correctly report an error in tun_flow_init() Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:02:04 -0500 Message-ID: <2057175.PIsargdSHu@sifl> References: <20121129215724.30020.69464.stgit@sifl> <20121129220629.30020.99947.stgit@sifl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov To: jasowang@redhat.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121129220629.30020.99947.stgit@sifl> Sender: linux-security-module-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday, November 29, 2012 05:06:29 PM Paul Moore wrote: > On error, the error code from tun_flow_init() is lost inside > tun_set_iff(), this patch fixes this by assigning the tun_flow_init() > error code to the "err" variable which is returned by > the tun_flow_init() function on error. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Jason, we've had some good discussion around patch 2/2 but nothing on this fix; can I assume you are okay with this patch? If so I think we should go ahead and apply this ... > --- > drivers/net/tun.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c > index 607a3a5..877ffe2 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/tun.c > +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c > @@ -1605,7 +1605,8 @@ static int tun_set_iff(struct net *net, struct file > *file, struct ifreq *ifr) > > tun_net_init(dev); > > - if (tun_flow_init(tun)) > + err = tun_flow_init(tun); > + if (err < 0) > goto err_free_dev; > > dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST | -- paul moore security and virtualization @ redhat