netdev - Re: v2 [PATCH net-next 1/8] af_packet: Check return of dev_set

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Message-ID: <4869FC12.9030300@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:42:42 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	NETDEV <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v2 [PATCH net-next 1/8] af_packet: Check return of dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti

Patrick McHardy said the following on 2008-7-1 17:36:
> Wang Chen wrote:
>> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti might overflow.
>> Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next
>> makes
>> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened.
>>
>> In af_packet, we check all positive increment for promiscuity and
>> allmulti
>> to get error return.
>>
>>  static void packet_dev_mclist(struct net_device *dev, struct
>> packet_mclist *i, int what)
>> @@ -1245,7 +1247,7 @@ static int packet_mc_add(struct sock *sk, struct
>> packet_mreq_max *mreq)
>>      i->count = 1;
>>      i->next = po->mclist;
>>      po->mclist = i;
>> -    packet_dev_mc(dev, i, +1);
>> +    err = packet_dev_mc(dev, i, 1);
> 
> Missing error handling. The packet_mclist is already initialized
> and on the list here, which will result in deletion without
> addition in packet_flush_mclist().
> 

will do.

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