Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 5/9] net: qede: sanitize 'rc' in qede_add_tc_flower_fltr()

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 09:46:02AM +0000, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> Hi Pavel and Sasha,
>
> On 5/13/24 8:18 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Explicitly set 'rc' (return code), before jumping to the
> > > unlock and return path.
> > >
> > > By not having any code depend on that 'rc' remains at
> > > it's initial value of -EINVAL, then we can re-use 'rc' for
> > > the return code of function calls in subsequent patches.
> > >
> > > Only compile tested.
> >
> > Only compile tested, and is a preparation for something we won't do in
> > stable. Does not fix a bug, please drop.
>
> Please see the original thread about this series[1], this patch is a requirement for
> two of the next patches, which does fix a few bugs with overruled error codes returned
> to user space.
>
> I was originally going to ignore these AUTOSEL mails, since the whole series was already
> added to the queued more than 24 hours earlier[2]. In the queue Sasha has also added "Stable-dep-of:'.
>
> So the weird thing is that AUTOSEL selected this patch, given that it was already in the queue.

Two different processes on my end, sorry for the noise!

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Thanks,
Sasha