netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] ipstats: fix message reporting error

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 19:30:20 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org, dsahern@...il.com,
 me@...chata.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ipstats: fix message reporting error

Hello:

This patch was applied to iproute2/iproute2.git (main)
by Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>:

On Mon, 29 May 2023 18:59:15 +0200 you wrote:
> strerror() accepts any integer as arguments, but returns meaningful
> error descriptions only for positive integers.
> 
> ipstats code uses strerror on a code path where either err is 0 or
> -ENOMEM, thus resulting in a useless error message.
> 
> Fix this using errno and moving the error printing closer to the only
> function populating it in this code path.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [iproute2] ipstats: fix message reporting error
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=995096d946cb

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