netdev - Re: [patch] bridge: simplify br

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Date:	Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:33:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] bridge: simplify br_getlink() a bit

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:22:35 +0300

> Static checkers complain that we should maybe set "ret" before we do the
> "goto out;".  They interpret the NULL return from br_port_get_rtnl() as
> a failure and forgetting to set the error code is a common bug in this
> situation.
> 
> The code is confusing but it's actually correct.  We are returning zero
> deliberately.  Let's re-write it a bit to be more clear.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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