Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] tun: correctly report an error in tun_flow_init()

Paul Moore
2012-12-05T16:02:04Z

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 <pmoore@redhat.com>

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 |
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paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat