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Date:	Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:03:51 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/2] net: sched: cls_basic: fix error path in
 basic_change()

On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 07:29 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 12/05/2014 06:50 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> > ---
> >   net/sched/cls_basic.c | 5 ++---
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/sched/cls_basic.c b/net/sched/cls_basic.c
> > index 7cf0a62..5aed341 100644
> > --- a/net/sched/cls_basic.c
> > +++ b/net/sched/cls_basic.c
> > @@ -178,10 +178,9 @@ static int basic_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *in_skb,
> >   			return -EINVAL;
> >   	}
> >
> > -	err = -ENOBUFS;
> >   	fnew = kzalloc(sizeof(*fnew), GFP_KERNEL);
> > -	if (fnew == NULL)
> > -		goto errout;
> > +	if (!fnew)
> > +		return -ENOBUFS;
> >
> >   	tcf_exts_init(&fnew->exts, TCA_BASIC_ACT, TCA_BASIC_POLICE);
> >   	err = -EINVAL;
> >
> 
> Nice catch, thanks!
> 
> Reviewed-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Sorry, but this looks a cosmetic change, right ?

If it is a fix, we'd like a 'Fixes: ...' tag.



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