netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: remove useless if check from register

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:21:48 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Cc:	kda@...ux-powerpc.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: remove useless if check from
 register_netdevice()

From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:23:08 -0800

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org> wrote:
>> remove useless if check from register_netdevice()
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
>> ---
>> v1 -> v2: Fixed identation
>> ---
>>  net/core/dev.c | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
>> index 4ad1b78..21a72ad 100644
>> --- a/net/core/dev.c
>> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
>> @@ -5876,8 +5876,7 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
>>         if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_init) {
>>                 ret = dev->netdev_ops->ndo_init(dev);
>>                 if (ret) {
>> -                       if (ret > 0)
>> -                               ret = -EIO;
>> +                       ret = -EIO;
>>                         goto out;
> 
> why is it a useless check?
> seems perfectly valid to me.
> most of the time ndo_init() returns negative error code like -ENOMEM
> which we want
> to propagate further down and want to override it to -EIO if it's > 0

Agreed, and if it is useless then unconditionally returining -EIO is
absolutely the wrong thing to do.  We should always use whatever negative
error code ndo_init() gave us.

I'm not applying this patch.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html