From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:38488 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1163222AbeE1Ksg (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2018 06:48:36 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Omar Sandoval , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , Jens Axboe , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.14 166/496] nbd: fix return value in error handling path Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 11:59:11 +0200 Message-Id: <20180528100326.858140919@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180528100319.498712256@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180528100319.498712256@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" [ Upstream commit 0979962f5490abe75b3e2befb07a564fa0cf631b ] It seems that the proper value to return in this particular case is the one contained into variable new_index instead of ret. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1465148 ("Copy-paste error") Fixes: e46c7287b1c2 ("nbd: add a basic netlink interface") Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ again: if (new_index < 0) { mutex_unlock(&nbd_index_mutex); printk(KERN_ERR "nbd: failed to add new device\n"); - return ret; + return new_index; } nbd = idr_find(&nbd_index_idr, new_index); }