netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support

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Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:52:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	scofeldm@...co.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, chrisw@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support

From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@...co.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:18:07 -0700

> +	if (tb[IOV_ATTR_VF_IFNAME])
> +		vf_dev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net,
> +			nla_data(tb[IOV_ATTR_VF_IFNAME]));

It's probably best to check this for NULL and notify
the user with an error in that case (don't forget to
put 'dev' in that error path :-)

As things stand it looks like if we can't find vf_dev, we'll just send
NULL down to the vf_dev arg of the various operations and possibly
silently succeed.

That's not desirable, semantically.
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