netdev - Re: [PATCH linux-next v2] net/ipv4: return the real errno instead of -EINVAL

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 <169153562200.6878.1758021707222375930.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 23:00:22 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: xu <xu.xin.sc@...il.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, dsahern@...nel.org, kuba@...nel.org,
 pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 xu.xin16@....com.cn, yang.yang29@....com.cn, si.hao@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next v2] net/ipv4: return the real errno instead of
 -EINVAL

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Mon,  7 Aug 2023 01:54:08 +0000 you wrote:
> From: xu xin <xu.xin16@....com.cn>
> 
> For now, No matter what error pointer ip_neigh_for_gw() returns,
> ip_finish_output2() always return -EINVAL, which may mislead the upper
> users.
> 
> For exemple, an application uses sendto to send an UDP packet, but when the
> neighbor table overflows, sendto() will get a value of -EINVAL, and it will
> cause users to waste a lot of time checking parameters for errors.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [linux-next,v2] net/ipv4: return the real errno instead of -EINVAL
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/c67180efc507

You are awesome, thank you!
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