netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/8] macvlan: Check return of dev_set

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Message-ID: <4860DCCC.1040806@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:38:52 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	NETDEV <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/8] macvlan: Check return of dev_set_allmulti

Wang Chen wrote:
> Patrick McHardy said the following on 2008-6-20 17:45:
>> Please change this to use gotos for rollback on error.
>>
> 
> allmulti might overflow.
> Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes
> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened.
> 
> Here, we check the positive increment for allmulti to get error return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
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