netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/garp: avoid infinite loop if attribute already exists

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Message-Id: <20120326.174432.594293356850568957.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:44:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david.ward@...mit.edu
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/garp: avoid infinite loop if attribute already
 exists

From: David Ward <david.ward@...mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:43:56 -0400

> @@ -353,9 +361,9 @@ int garp_request_join(const struct net_device *dev,
>  
>  	spin_lock_bh(&app->lock);
>  	attr = garp_attr_create(app, data, len, type);
> -	if (!attr) {
> +	if (IS_ERR(attr)) {
>  		spin_unlock_bh(&app->lock);
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +		return ERR_PTR(attr);

You cannot tell me that this ERR_PTR() thing didn't emit a very loud
warning from the compiler.  You want PTR_ERR() instead.

Please don't be so careless, if I can predict compiler warnings just
by reading your patches you are so doing it wrong.
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