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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:14:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: bastienphilbert@...il.com
Cc: stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge:Fix incorrect variable assignment on error path
in br_sysfs_addbr
From: Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:04:26 -0400
> This fixes the incorrect variable assignment on error path in
> br_sysfs_addbr for when the call to kobject_create_and_add
> fails to assign the value of -EINVAL to the returned variable of
> err rather then incorrectly return zero making callers think this
> function has succeededed due to the previous assignment being
> assigned zero when assigning it the successful return value of
> the call to sysfs_create_group which is zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@...il.com>
Applied, but please put a space after the subsystem prefix and the
colon character in your subject lines in the future.
Doesn't that really look odd to you, the way you did it? "net:Fix"?
Doesn't it look more natural, and consistent with what all other
patch submitters do, if it's "net: Fix"?
Thanks.
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