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

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Message-ID: <20170614131846.GA2955@office.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:20:42 +0300
From:   Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/act_pedit: fix an error code

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:29:31PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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>
> 
You are right, it was intended to be -EINVAL. Thanks.

Acked-by: Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me>