linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] secmark: do not return early if there was no error

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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:01:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, jmorris@...ei.org,
	sds@...ho.nsa.gov, paul.moore@...com, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, netfilter@...r.kernel.org,
	mr.dash.four@...glemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] secmark: do not return early if there was no error

On Friday 2010-09-24 22:45, Eric Paris wrote:

>Commit 4a5a5c73 attempted to pass decent error messages back to userspace for
>netfilter errors.  In xt_SECMARK.c however the patch screwed up and returned
>on 0 (aka no error) early and didn't finish setting up secmark.  This results
>in a kernel BUG if you use SECMARK.

>+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_SECMARK.c
>@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static int secmark_tg_check(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
> 	switch (info->mode) {
> 	case SECMARK_MODE_SEL:
> 		err = checkentry_selinux(info);
>-		if (err <= 0)
>+		if (err)
> 			return err;

Indeed the = is unwanted and err < 0 was intended here.
Sorry for the slip.
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