netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/act_pedit: fix an error code

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:31:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, amir@...ai.me, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/act_pedit: fix an error code

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:29:31 +0300

> I'm reviewing static checker warnings where we do ERR_PTR(0), which is
> the same as NULL.  I'm pretty sure we intended to return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL)
> here.  Sometimes these bugs lead to a NULL dereference but I don't
> immediately see that problem here.
> 
> Fixes: 71d0ed7079df ("net/act_pedit: Support using offset relative to the conventional network headers")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.