From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Cong Wang Subject: [ 33/61] pktgen: correctly handle failures when adding a device Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:34:53 -0800 Message-Id: <20130212203422.687530645@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130212203417.890993903@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130212203417.890993903@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Cong Wang [ Upstream commit 604dfd6efc9b79bce432f2394791708d8e8f6efc ] The return value of pktgen_add_device() is not checked, so even if we fail to add some device, for example, non-exist one, we still see "OK:...". This patch fixes it. After this patch, I got: # echo "add_device non-exist" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 -bash: echo: write error: No such device # cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 Running: Stopped: Result: ERROR: can not add device non-exist # echo "add_device eth0" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 # cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 Running: Stopped: eth0 Result: OK: add_device=eth0 (Candidate for -stable) Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/core/pktgen.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -1795,10 +1795,13 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_thread_write(struc return -EFAULT; i += len; mutex_lock(&pktgen_thread_lock); - pktgen_add_device(t, f); + ret = pktgen_add_device(t, f); mutex_unlock(&pktgen_thread_lock); - ret = count; - sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f); + if (!ret) { + ret = count; + sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f); + } else + sprintf(pg_result, "ERROR: can not add device %s", f); goto out; }