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PKT_SCHED: Fix error handling while dumping actions
authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Tue, 7 Nov 2006 14:30:21 +0000 (15:30 +0100)
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Tue, 7 Nov 2006 14:30:21 +0000 (15:30 +0100)
"return -err" and blindly inheriting the error code in the netlink
failure exception handler causes errors codes to be returned as
positive value therefore making them being ignored by the caller.

May lead to sending out incomplete netlink messages.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
net/sched/act_api.c

index 2ffa11c6e8ded50080855fe7250642ebacc8cf2f..4a1d29be0f5b5e9a32ba20f74a81b7e93e1f200a 100644 (file)
@@ -251,15 +251,17 @@ tcf_action_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tc_action *act, int bind, int ref)
                RTA_PUT(skb, a->order, 0, NULL);
                err = tcf_action_dump_1(skb, a, bind, ref);
                if (err < 0)
-                       goto rtattr_failure;
+                       goto errout;
                r->rta_len = skb->tail - (u8*)r;
        }
 
        return 0;
 
 rtattr_failure:
+       err = -EINVAL;
+errout:
        skb_trim(skb, b - skb->data);
-       return -err;
+       return err;
 }
 
 struct tc_action *tcf_action_init_1(struct rtattr *rta, struct rtattr *est,