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Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:11:48 -0300
From:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
To:	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netconsole: enable netconsole can make net_device
 refcnt

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:05:48 +0800
Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Im so sorry.
> the first patch has some format err.
> Please use this one.
> thanks wanlong! ^V^
> 
> 11.10.2011 15:50, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> > There is no check if netconsole is enabled current.
> > so when exec echo 1 > enabled;
> > the reference of net_device will increment always.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/netconsole.c |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> > index ed2a397..4e6323df 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
> > @@ -307,6 +307,8 @@ static ssize_t store_enabled(struct
> > netconsole_target *nt, return err;
> >  	if (enabled < 0 || enabled > 1)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> > +	if (enabled == nt->enabled)
> > +		return err;

It looks like 'err' will be 0.  Maybe it is better to
return -EINVAL?

fbl
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