pktgen: correctly handle failures when adding a device
authorCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:14:08 +0000 (21:14 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:43:03 +0000 (15:43 -0500)
The return value of pktgen_add_device() is not checked, so
even if we fail to add some device, for example, non-exist one,
we still see "OK:...". This patch fixes it.

After this patch, I got:

# echo "add_device non-exist" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
-bash: echo: write error: No such device
# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
Running:
Stopped:
Result: ERROR: can not add device non-exist
# echo "add_device eth0" > /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
# cat /proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0
Running:
Stopped: eth0
Result: OK: add_device=eth0

(Candidate for -stable)

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/pktgen.c

index b29dacf900f9496a42a565a3b2c48ad9cf502c74..e6e1cbe863f57cc18dfc3e25ed2eeffca45e618b 100644 (file)
@@ -1781,10 +1781,13 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_thread_write(struct file *file,
                        return -EFAULT;
                i += len;
                mutex_lock(&pktgen_thread_lock);
-               pktgen_add_device(t, f);
+               ret = pktgen_add_device(t, f);
                mutex_unlock(&pktgen_thread_lock);
-               ret = count;
-               sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f);
+               if (!ret) {
+                       ret = count;
+                       sprintf(pg_result, "OK: add_device=%s", f);
+               } else
+                       sprintf(pg_result, "ERROR: can not add device %s", f);
                goto out;
        }