As far as I see from the err variable initialization
the dn_nl_deladdr() routine was designed to report errors
like "EADDRNOTAVAIL" and probaby "ENODEV".

But the code sets this err to 0 after the first nlmsg_parse
and goes on, returning this 0 in any case.

Is this made deliberately, or the patch below is correct?

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>

---

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
index 66e266f..3bc82dc 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
@@ -651,16 +651,18 @@ static int dn_nl_deladdr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
 	struct dn_dev *dn_db;
 	struct ifaddrmsg *ifm;
 	struct dn_ifaddr *ifa, **ifap;
-	int err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+	int err;
 
 	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFA_MAX, dn_ifa_policy);
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto errout;
 
+	err = -ENODEV;
 	ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 	if ((dn_db = dn_dev_by_index(ifm->ifa_index)) == NULL)
 		goto errout;
 
+	err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
 	for (ifap = &dn_db->ifa_list; (ifa = *ifap); ifap = &ifa->ifa_next) {
 		if (tb[IFA_LOCAL] &&
 		    nla_memcmp(tb[IFA_LOCAL], &ifa->ifa_local, 2))

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:29:20PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> As far as I see from the err variable initialization
> the dn_nl_deladdr() routine was designed to report errors
> like "EADDRNOTAVAIL" and probaby "ENODEV".
> 
> But the code sets this err to 0 after the first nlmsg_parse
> and goes on, returning this 0 in any case.
> 
> Is this made deliberately, or the patch below is correct?
>
The patch looks good to me.
 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Steve.

> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
> index 66e266f..3bc82dc 100644
> --- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
> +++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c
> @@ -651,16 +651,18 @@ static int dn_nl_deladdr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
>  	struct dn_dev *dn_db;
>  	struct ifaddrmsg *ifm;
>  	struct dn_ifaddr *ifa, **ifap;
> -	int err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
> +	int err;
>  
>  	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), tb, IFA_MAX, dn_ifa_policy);
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		goto errout;
>  
> +	err = -ENODEV;
>  	ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
>  	if ((dn_db = dn_dev_by_index(ifm->ifa_index)) == NULL)
>  		goto errout;
>  
> +	err = -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
>  	for (ifap = &dn_db->ifa_list; (ifa = *ifap); ifap = &ifa->ifa_next) {
>  		if (tb[IFA_LOCAL] &&
>  		    nla_memcmp(tb[IFA_LOCAL], &ifa->ifa_local, 2))
> -
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:35:43PM +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks Pavel!
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