From 604dfd6efc9b79bce432f2394791708d8e8f6efc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:14:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] pktgen: correctly handle failures when adding a device The return value of pktgen_add_device() is not checked, so even if we fail to add some device, for example, non-exist one, we still see "OK:...". This patch fixes it. After this patch, I got: # echo "add_device non-exist" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 -bash: echo: write error: No such device # cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 Running: Stopped: Result: ERROR: can not add device non-exist # echo "add_device eth0" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 # cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 Running: Stopped: eth0 Result: OK: add_device=eth0 (Candidate for -stable) Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/pktgen.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index b29dacf900f9..e6e1cbe863f5 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -1781,10 +1781,13 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_thread_write(struct file *file, return -EFAULT; i += len; mutex_lock(&pktgen_thread_lock); - pktgen_add_device(t, f); + ret = pktgen_add_device(t, f); mutex_unlock(&pktgen_thread_lock); - ret = count; - sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f); + if (!ret) { + ret = count; + sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f); + } else + sprintf(pg_result, "ERROR: can not add device %s", f); goto out; }