linux-kernel - [PATCH] netfilter: nft_counter: fix erroneous return values

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Date:	Sat,  6 Feb 2016 23:31:19 -0500
From:	Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@...il.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nft_counter: fix erroneous return values

The nft_counter_init() and nft_counter_clone() functions should return
negative error value -ENOMEM instead of positive ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@...il.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nft_counter.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c b/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
index c7808fc..c9743f7 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_counter.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int nft_counter_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 
 	cpu_stats = netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats(struct nft_counter_percpu);
 	if (cpu_stats == NULL)
-		return ENOMEM;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	preempt_disable();
 	this_cpu = this_cpu_ptr(cpu_stats);
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static int nft_counter_clone(struct nft_expr *dst, const struct nft_expr *src)
 	cpu_stats = __netdev_alloc_pcpu_stats(struct nft_counter_percpu,
 					      GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (cpu_stats == NULL)
-		return ENOMEM;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	preempt_disable();
 	this_cpu = this_cpu_ptr(cpu_stats);
-- 
2.1.4