Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 3 authors, 2015-01-28

Re: [PATCH net-next v1 01/18] net: ethtool: propagate get_settings error

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-28 20:13:52
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On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 17:35 -0800, David Decotigny wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: David Decotigny <redacted>

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <redacted>
---
 net/core/ethtool.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 91f74f3..52efb7e 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_settings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
 
 	if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &cmd, sizeof(cmd)))
 		return -EFAULT;
-	return 0;
+	return err;
err cannnot be negative at this point (and if it's positive, that's a
bug in the get_settings implementation which we happen to fix up).

Ben.
 }
 
 static int ethtool_set_settings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

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