Re: net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1169 mptcp_pm_parse_pm_addr_attr() warn: missing error code? 'err'

[Dan Carpenter]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 03:38:01PM -0800, Mat Martineau wrote:
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1158  	/* no validation needed - was already done via nested policy */
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1159  	err = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb, MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_MAX, attr,
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1160  					  mptcp_pm_addr_policy, info->extack);
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1161  	if (err)
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1162  		return err;
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1163
> > 982f17ba1a2534 Florian Westphal 2022-05-03  1164  	if (tb[MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_ID])
> > 982f17ba1a2534 Florian Westphal 2022-05-03  1165  		addr->id = nla_get_u8(tb[MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_ID]);
> > 982f17ba1a2534 Florian Westphal 2022-05-03  1166
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1167  	if (!tb[MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_FAMILY]) {
> > 01cacb00b35cb6 Paolo Abeni      2020-03-27  1168  		if (!require_family)
> > 982f17ba1a2534 Florian Westphal 2022-05-03 @1169  			return err;
> > 
> > "err" is zero at this point.  Presumably a negative error code was
> > intended.
> 
> Hi Dan -
> 
> The intended error code is 0 here: the return happens if no
> MPTCP_PM_ADDR_ATTR_FAMILY value is present and require_family is false.
> 
> It would be clearer to "return 0;", but the code is working as expected.
> 
> 
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dan carpenter