netdev - Re: [patch v2] net/mlx5: missing error code in esw_create_offloads_fdb

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:54:54 -0600
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] net/mlx5: missing error code in
 esw_create_offloads_fdb_table()

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:48:44PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We accidentally return success when we had intended to return an error
> code.
> 
> Fixes: 69697b6e2086 ('net/mlx5: E-Switch, Add support for the sriov offloads mode')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> v2: return -ENOTSUPP instead --EINVAL
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
> index 1842dfb..7d982cf 100644
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
> @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ static int esw_create_offloads_fdb_table(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, int nvports)
>  
>  	root_ns = mlx5_get_flow_namespace(dev, MLX5_FLOW_NAMESPACE_FDB);
>  	if (!root_ns) {
> +		err = -ENOTSUPP;

Did you mean ENOTSUP?

I thought ENOTSUPP was not to be used outside NFS, and isn't properly
exported to userspace..

$ find /usr/include -name "*errno*" | xargs grep 524

Jason