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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2008-06-03 16:36:54 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-06-03 16:36:54 -0700
commitbc3ed28caaef55e7e3a9316464256353c5f9b1df (patch)
tree3aed4521aa2d74a36ee2b192c2e229fd23fbe732 /net/core
parent1f9d11c7c99da706e33646c3a9080dd5a8ef9a0b (diff)
netlink: Improve returned error codes
Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and nla_nest_cancel() void functions. Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not big enough. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/neighbour.c3
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 3896de79dfbf..65f01f71b3f3 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1714,7 +1714,8 @@ static int neightbl_fill_parms(struct sk_buff *skb, struct neigh_parms *parms)
return nla_nest_end(skb, nest);
nla_put_failure:
- return nla_nest_cancel(skb, nest);
+ nla_nest_cancel(skb, nest);
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
}
static int neightbl_fill_info(struct sk_buff *skb, struct neigh_table *tbl,
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index cf857c4dc7b1..a9a77216310e 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -498,7 +498,8 @@ int rtnetlink_put_metrics(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 *metrics)
return nla_nest_end(skb, mx);
nla_put_failure:
- return nla_nest_cancel(skb, mx);
+ nla_nest_cancel(skb, mx);
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
}
int rtnl_put_cacheinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst, u32 id,