netdev - [RFC Patch net-next 3/6] net_sched: return NULL in tcf_hash

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Date:   Thu,  1 Sep 2016 22:57:17 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC Patch net-next 3/6] net_sched: return NULL in tcf_hash_check()

When we don't find an action with a specific index,
we only return false but not touch *a. It is nicer
if we could set *a to NULL here, this would make
callers easier to use these API's.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
---
 net/sched/act_api.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/act_api.c b/net/sched/act_api.c
index db907e5..d0a7db2 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_api.c
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ bool tcf_hash_check(struct tc_action_net *tn, u32 index, struct tc_action **a,
 		*a = p;
 		return true;
 	}
+	*a = NULL;
 	return false;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcf_hash_check);
-- 
2.1.0