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| author |   Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2010-03-19 17:32:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2010-03-25 16:56:09 +0100 |
| commit | 4a5a5c73b7cfee46a0b1411903cfa0dea532deec (patch) | |
| tree | 3f7ef0def4adf3a01e15ab3a2a7231967b87bfee /net/netfilter/xt_string.c | |
| parent | netfilter: xtables: change targets to return error code (diff) | |
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netfilter: xtables: slightly better error reporting
When extended status codes are available, such as ENOMEM on failed
allocations, or subsequent functions (e.g. nf_ct_get_l3proto), passing
them up to userspace seems like a good idea compared to just always
EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/xt_string.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/xt_string.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_string.c b/net/netfilter/xt_string.c index e1f22a7a4152..b0f8292db6f8 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_string.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_string.c @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static int string_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par) ts_conf = textsearch_prepare(conf->algo, conf->pattern, conf->patlen, GFP_KERNEL, flags); if (IS_ERR(ts_conf)) - return -EINVAL; + return PTR_ERR(ts_conf); conf->config = ts_conf; return 0; |