[Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: Fix return value of br_multicast_add_group()
Stephen Hemminger
shemminger at linux-foundation.org
Thu Dec 9 08:29:24 PST 2010
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:02:36 +0100
Tobias Klauser <tklauser at distanz.ch> wrote:
> If br_multicast_new_group returns NULL, we would return 0 (no error) to
> the caller, which is not what we want. Instead we should return -ENOMEM
> in this case.
>
> Also replace IS_ERR(x) || !x by IS_ERR_OR_NULL(x)
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser at distanz.ch>
> ---
> net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> index 326e599..d4e1e81 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
> @@ -713,8 +713,11 @@ static int br_multicast_add_group(struct net_bridge *br,
>
> mp = br_multicast_new_group(br, port, group);
> err = PTR_ERR(mp);
> - if (unlikely(IS_ERR(mp) || !mp))
> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mp)) {
> + if (!mp)
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> goto err;
> + }
>
> if (!port) {
> hlist_add_head(&mp->mglist, &br->mglist);
I would rather fix br_multicast_new_group so it never returns
NULL. Instead return PTR_ERR(-ENOMEM) on out of memory.
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