netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] bridge: Fix return values of br_multicast_add_group/br_multicast_new

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Message-Id: <20101210.130125.233714141.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:01:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tklauser@...tanz.ch
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bridge: Fix return values of
 br_multicast_add_group/br_multicast_new_group

From: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:18:04 +0100

> If br_multicast_new_group returns NULL, we would return 0 (no error) to
> the caller of br_multicast_add_group, which is not what we want. Instead
> br_multicast_new_group should return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) in this case.
> Also propagate the error number returned by br_mdb_rehash properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>

Looks good, applied to net-next-2.6

Please in the future make is clear, in your subject line, which
tree this patch is meant for.

I had to figure it out by trial and error, because this patch
does not apply properly to net-2.6

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