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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)
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parent1f9d11c7c99da706e33646c3a9080dd5a8ef9a0b (diff)
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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/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/attr.c12
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c6
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index feb326f..47bbf45 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -400,13 +400,13 @@ void __nla_put_nohdr(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
* @attrlen: length of attribute payload
* @data: head of attribute payload
*
- * Returns -1 if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
+ * Returns -EMSGSIZE if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
* the attribute header and payload.
*/
int nla_put(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype, int attrlen, const void *data)
{
if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < nla_total_size(attrlen)))
- return -1;
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
__nla_put(skb, attrtype, attrlen, data);
return 0;
@@ -418,13 +418,13 @@ int nla_put(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype, int attrlen, const void *data)
* @attrlen: length of attribute payload
* @data: head of attribute payload
*
- * Returns -1 if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
+ * Returns -EMSGSIZE if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
* the attribute payload.
*/
int nla_put_nohdr(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
{
if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < NLA_ALIGN(attrlen)))
- return -1;
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
__nla_put_nohdr(skb, attrlen, data);
return 0;
@@ -436,13 +436,13 @@ int nla_put_nohdr(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
* @attrlen: length of attribute payload
* @data: head of attribute payload
*
- * Returns -1 if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
+ * Returns -EMSGSIZE if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
* the attribute payload.
*/
int nla_append(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
{
if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < NLA_ALIGN(attrlen)))
- return -1;
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
memcpy(skb_put(skb, attrlen), data, attrlen);
return 0;
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index d16929c..f5aa23c 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -554,7 +554,8 @@ static int ctrl_fill_info(struct genl_family *family, u32 pid, u32 seq,
return genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
nla_put_failure:
- return genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
+ genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
}
static int ctrl_fill_mcgrp_info(struct genl_multicast_group *grp, u32 pid,
@@ -590,7 +591,8 @@ static int ctrl_fill_mcgrp_info(struct genl_multicast_group *grp, u32 pid,
return genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
nla_put_failure:
- return genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
+ genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr);
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
}
static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)