netdev - [PATCH net-next v2] genetlink: fix error return code in genl_register

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Date:   Tue,  1 Nov 2016 14:45:52 +0000
From:   Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        stephen hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@...onical.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...ia.com>
Cc:     Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2] genetlink: fix error return code in genl_register_family()

From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>

Fix to return a negative error code from the idr_alloc() error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Also fix the return value check of idr_alloc() since idr_alloc return
negative errors on failure, not zero.

Fixes: 2ae0f17df1cd ("genetlink: use idr to track families")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>
---
v1 -> v2: fix the return value check and return idr_alloc's err code
---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index caf04d7..bbd3bff 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -362,8 +362,10 @@ int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
 
 	family->id = idr_alloc(&genl_fam_idr, family,
 			       start, end + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!family->id)
+	if (family->id < 0) {
+		err = family->id;
 		goto errout_locked;
+	}
 
 	err = genl_validate_assign_mc_groups(family);
 	if (err)