Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ipvlan should return an error when an address is already in use.

From: Krister Johansen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 02:09:01 -0800

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 02:24:43PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> David Miller <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > From: Aaron Conole <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:50:00 -0500
> >
> >>> @@ -489,7 +490,12 @@ static int __inet_insert_ifa(struct in_ifaddr *ifa, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
> >>>  	   Notifier will trigger FIB update, so that
> >>>  	   listeners of netlink will know about new ifaddr */
> >>>  	rtmsg_ifa(RTM_NEWADDR, ifa, nlh, portid);
> >>> -	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&inetaddr_chain, NETDEV_UP, ifa);
> >>> +	ret = blocking_notifier_call_chain(&inetaddr_chain, NETDEV_UP, ifa);
> >> 
> >> Why are you doing this assignment if you aren't using the result?
> >> 
> >>> +	ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
> >>> +	if (ret) {
> >>> +		__inet_del_ifa(in_dev, ifap, 1, NULL, portid);
> >>> +		return ret;
> >>> +	}
> >
> > 'ret' assignment is being used, via notifier_to_errno().
> 
> d'oh!  should have had more coffee - sorry for the noise.

No worries, and thanks for taking a look.  That was from checkpatch,
which complained when I wrote it as:

	if ((ret = notifier_to_errno(ret)) != 0) {

-K