Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v1 net-next] net: openvswitch: Use ERR_CAST() to return

From: Aaron Conole <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:30:27 -0400

Yan Zhen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Using ERR_CAST() is more reasonable and safer, When it is necessary
> to convert the type of an error pointer and return it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zhen <[email-masked]>
> ---

LGTM, and seems like the only remaining place where we are open coding
the error return conversion in the OVS module (at least, where we do a
check with IS_ERR).  At least, I tried to visit them all while looking
at this.

Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <[email-masked]>

>  net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> index c92bdc4dfe19..729ef582a3a8 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
> @@ -2491,7 +2491,7 @@ static struct nlattr *reserve_sfa_size(struct sw_flow_actions **sfa,
>
>  	acts = nla_alloc_flow_actions(new_acts_size);
>  	if (IS_ERR(acts))
> -		return (void *)acts;
> +		return ERR_CAST(acts);
>
>  	memcpy(acts->actions, (*sfa)->actions, (*sfa)->actions_len);
>  	acts->actions_len = (*sfa)->actions_len;
> -- 
> 2.34.1