netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: Use correct return for seq

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Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 17:57:38 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: Use correct return for seq_show
 functions

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:28:23PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Using seq_has_overflowed doesn't produce the right return value.
> Either 0 or -1 is, but 0 is much more common and works well when
> seq allocation retries.
> 
> I believe this doesn't matter as the initial allocation is always
> sufficient, this is just a correctness patch.
> 
> Miscellanea:
> 
> o Don't use strlen, use *ptr to determine if a string
>   should be emitted like all the other tests here
> o Delete unnecessary return statements

Applied, thanks.
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