Re: [PATCH] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL #2

2012-09-18 Thread David Miller
From: Steffen Klassert Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:18:53 +0200 > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:58:32PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote: >> When dump_one_policy() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small >> buffer to dump the whole xfrm policy, xfrm_policy_netlink() returns >> NULL instead of an error

Re: [PATCH] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL #2

2012-09-17 Thread Steffen Klassert
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:58:32PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote: > When dump_one_policy() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small > buffer to dump the whole xfrm policy, xfrm_policy_netlink() returns > NULL instead of an error pointer. But its caller expects an error > pointer and therefore co

[PATCH] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL #2

2012-09-14 Thread Mathias Krause
When dump_one_policy() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small buffer to dump the whole xfrm policy, xfrm_policy_netlink() returns NULL instead of an error pointer. But its caller expects an error pointer and therefore continues to operate on a NULL skbuff. Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-