From bc3ed28caaef55e7e3a9316464256353c5f9b1df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:36:54 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/neighbour.c | 3 ++- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c index 3896de79dfb..65f01f71b3f 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 cf857c4dc7b..a9a77216310 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, -- cgit v1.2.3