netdev - [PATCH net] openvswitch: fix error return code in validate_and_copy_dec

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Message-ID: <20201204114314.1596-1-wanghai38@huawei.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2020 19:43:14 +0800
From:   Wang Hai <wanghai38@...wei.com>
To:     <pshelar@....org>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
        <echaudro@...hat.com>
CC:     <dev@...nvswitch.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net] openvswitch: fix error return code in validate_and_copy_dec_ttl()

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

Changing 'return start' to 'return action_start' can fix this bug.

Fixes: 69929d4c49e1 ("net: openvswitch: fix TTL decrement action netlink message format")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@...wei.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
index ec0689ddc635..4c5c2331e764 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
@@ -2531,7 +2531,7 @@ static int validate_and_copy_dec_ttl(struct net *net,
 
 	action_start = add_nested_action_start(sfa, OVS_DEC_TTL_ATTR_ACTION, log);
 	if (action_start < 0)
-		return start;
+		return action_start;
 
 	err = __ovs_nla_copy_actions(net, actions, key, sfa, eth_type,
 				     vlan_tci, mpls_label_count, log);
-- 
2.17.1