From: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:07:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: irda: Fix netlink error path return value
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26~25^2~13
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07035fc1bbf931a06e47583cddd2cea2907ac0db;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

irda: Fix netlink error path return value

Fix an incorrect return value check of genlmsg_put() in irda_nl_get_mode().
genlmsg_put() does not use ERR_PTR() to encode return values, it just
returns NULL on error.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/irda/irnetlink.c b/net/irda/irnetlink.c
index 9e1fb82e322..2f05ec1037a 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnetlink.c
+++ b/net/irda/irnetlink.c
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ static int irda_nl_get_mode(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
 	hdr = genlmsg_put(msg, info->snd_pid, info->snd_seq,
 			  &irda_nl_family, 0,  IRDA_NL_CMD_GET_MODE);
-	if (IS_ERR(hdr)) {
-		ret = PTR_ERR(hdr);
+	if (hdr == NULL) {
+		ret = -EMSGSIZE;
 		goto err_out;
 	}