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[PATCH] netfilter: Should xt_osf_remove_callback() return negative on errors?

From: Roel Kluin <hidden>
Date: 2009-11-11 22:20:57
Subsystem: netfilter, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Pablo Neira Ayuso, Florian Westphal, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Return a negative error value

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <redacted>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_osf.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

It seems strange that an error return can be positive or
negative, is this maybe required?
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_osf.c b/net/netfilter/xt_osf.c
index 63e1905..4d1a41b 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_osf.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_osf.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static int xt_osf_remove_callback(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb,
 {
 	struct xt_osf_user_finger *f;
 	struct xt_osf_finger *sf;
-	int err = ENOENT;
+	int err = -ENOENT;
 
 	if (!osf_attrs[OSF_ATTR_FINGER])
 		return -EINVAL;
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