netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] lwtunnel: fix error path in lwtunnel_fill

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Date:   Sun, 30 Apr 2017 22:42:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     bianpan2016@....com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, rshearma@...cade.com, tom@...bertland.com,
        david.lebrun@...ouvain.be, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] lwtunnel: fix error path in
 lwtunnel_fill_encap()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:03:48 +0300

> We recently added a check to see if nla_nest_start() fails.  There are
> two issues with that.  First, if it fails then I don't think we should
> call nla_nest_cancel().  Second, it's slightly convoluted but the
> current code returns success but we should return -EMSGSIZE instead.
> 
> Fixes: a50fe0ffd76f ("lwtunnel: check return value of nla_nest_start")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.