netdev - Re: TKIP encryption should allocate enough tailroom

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Date:	Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:34:54 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	brandon@...desmill.org (Brandon Craig Rhodes)
Cc:	mitch@...oth.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TKIP encryption should allocate enough tailroom

Brandon Craig Rhodes <brandon@...desmill.org> wrote:
> 
> Egads!  You are correct.
> 
> My intention was to preserve the value of "err" if an unsuccessful
> value was returned by skb_padto(), and otherwise to return "-1" which
> seemed the popular value used for errors elsewhere in the code.
> 
> - Would the expression "err ? err : -1" have served me better?
> - Do error codes mean anything here, or should I simply say "return -1"?

err ?: -1

should work.

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