linux-kernel - [Patch] net/sched/sch_generic.c: fix an error pointer

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:37:14 +0100
From:	WANG Cong <wcong@...tical-links.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Subject: [Patch] net/sched/sch_generic.c: fix an error pointer


ERR_PTR() ususally encodes an negative errno, not positive.

Note, in the following patch, 'err' is initialized as:

int err = -ENOBUFS;

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wcong@...tical-links.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:  Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>

---
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index d355e5e..13afa72 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ struct Qdisc *qdisc_alloc(struct net_device *dev,
struct Qdisc_ops *ops) 
 	return sch;
 errout:
-	return ERR_PTR(-err);
+	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 
 struct Qdisc * qdisc_create_dflt(struct net_device *dev, struct
Qdisc_ops *ops,
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