netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <bf47a26a-ec69-433b-9cf9-667f9bccbec1@stanley.mountain>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 12:39:02 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Mateusz Polchlopek <mateusz.polchlopek@...el.com>
Cc: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@...dia.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Muhammad Sammar <muhammads@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer
 dereference

On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 10:32:13AM +0100, Mateusz Polchlopek wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/30/2024 11:01 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The dr_domain_add_vport_cap() function genereally returns NULL on error
> 
> Typo. Should be "generally"
> 

Sure.

> > but sometimes we want it to return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) so the caller can
> > retry.  The problem here is that "ret" can be either -EBUSY or -ENOMEM
> 
> Please remove unnecessary space.
> 

What are you talking about?

regards,
dan carpenter