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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:19:36 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linyu.yuan@...ia-sbell.com
Cc:     cugyly@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: assign err to 0 at begin in do_setlink()
 function

From: "Yuan, Linyu (NSB - CN/Shanghai)" <linyu.yuan@...ia-sbell.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:15:35 +0000

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org]
>> On Behalf Of David Miller
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:08 PM
>> To: cugyly@....com
>> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; Yuan, Linyu (NSB - CN/Shanghai)
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: assign err to 0 at begin in do_setlink()
>> function
>> 
>> From: yuan linyu <cugyly@....com>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:30:59 +0800
>> 
>> > From: yuan linyu <Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn>
>> >
>> > each netlink attribute have proper process when error happen,
>> > when exit on attribute process, it implies that no error,
>> > so err = 0; is useless.
>> >
>> > assign err = 0; at beginning if all attributes not set.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: yuan linyu <Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn>
>> 
>> This change is not correct.
>> 
>> The IFLA_VF_PORTS code block can finish with err set non-zero.
> 
> Do you mean this block can return err = -EOPNOTSUPP;  ?
> It means nla_for_each_nested() in this block will never enter, right ?

Yes, that is what I mean.

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