From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: Use correct return for seq_show functions Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:57:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20150518155738.GA3854@salvia> References: <1431480503.2884.110.camel@perches.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Patrick McHardy , Jozsef Kadlecsik , "David S. Miller" , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1431480503.2884.110.camel@perches.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:28:23PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Using seq_has_overflowed doesn't produce the right return value. > Either 0 or -1 is, but 0 is much more common and works well when > seq allocation retries. > > I believe this doesn't matter as the initial allocation is always > sufficient, this is just a correctness patch. > > Miscellanea: > > o Don't use strlen, use *ptr to determine if a string > should be emitted like all the other tests here > o Delete unnecessary return statements Applied, thanks.