Re: [PATCH] nbd: fix return value in error handling path

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Feb 27 2018 - 18:04:35 EST




On 02/26/2018 05:01 PM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:14:55AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
It seems that the proper value to return in this particular case is the
one contained into variable new_index instead of ret.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1465148 ("Copy-paste error")
Fixes: e46c7287b1c2 ("nbd: add a basic netlink interface")
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>

Thanks, Omar.
--
Gustavo

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 5f2a424..86258b0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ static int nbd_genl_connect(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (new_index < 0) {
mutex_unlock(&nbd_index_mutex);
printk(KERN_ERR "nbd: failed to add new device\n");
- return ret;
+ return new_index;
}
nbd = idr_find(&nbd_index_idr, new_index);
}
--
2.7.4