netdev - [PATCH] rtnetlink: fix error return code in rtnl_link

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Date:	Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:22:45 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net, john.r.fastabend@...el.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
	edumazet@...gle.com, vyasevic@...hat.com
Cc:	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rtnetlink: fix error return code in rtnl_link_fill()

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling case
instead of 0(possible overwrite to 0 by ops->fill_xstats call),
as returned elsewhere in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 5fb8d7e..b65441d 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -496,8 +496,10 @@ static int rtnl_link_fill(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
 	}
 	if (ops->fill_info) {
 		data = nla_nest_start(skb, IFLA_INFO_DATA);
-		if (data == NULL)
+		if (data == NULL) {
+			err = -EMSGSIZE;
 			goto err_cancel_link;
+		}
 		err = ops->fill_info(skb, dev);
 		if (err < 0)
 			goto err_cancel_data;


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