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| author | Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> | 2008-06-03 16:36:54 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-06-03 16:36:54 -0700 |
| commit | bc3ed28caaef55e7e3a9316464256353c5f9b1df (patch) | |
| tree | 3aed4521aa2d74a36ee2b192c2e229fd23fbe732 /include/net/netlink.h | |
| parent | 1f9d11c7c99da706e33646c3a9080dd5a8ef9a0b (diff) | |
| download | linux-bc3ed28caaef55e7e3a9316464256353c5f9b1df.tar.bz2 | |
netlink: Improve returned error codes
Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and
nla_nest_cancel() void functions.
Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not
big enough.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netlink.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h index 112dcdf7e34e..dfc3701dfcc3 100644 --- a/include/net/netlink.h +++ b/include/net/netlink.h @@ -556,14 +556,12 @@ static inline void *nlmsg_get_pos(struct sk_buff *skb) * @skb: socket buffer the message is stored in * @mark: mark to trim to * - * Trims the message to the provided mark. Returns -1. + * Trims the message to the provided mark. */ -static inline int nlmsg_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, const void *mark) +static inline void nlmsg_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, const void *mark) { if (mark) skb_trim(skb, (unsigned char *) mark - skb->data); - - return -1; } /** @@ -572,11 +570,11 @@ static inline int nlmsg_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, const void *mark) * @nlh: netlink message header * * Removes the complete netlink message including all - * attributes from the socket buffer again. Returns -1. + * attributes from the socket buffer again. */ -static inline int nlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) +static inline void nlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh) { - return nlmsg_trim(skb, nlh); + nlmsg_trim(skb, nlh); } /** @@ -775,7 +773,7 @@ static inline int __nla_parse_nested_compat(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype, int nested_len = nla_len(nla) - NLA_ALIGN(len); if (nested_len < 0) - return -1; + return -EINVAL; if (nested_len >= nla_attr_size(0)) return nla_parse(tb, maxtype, nla_data(nla) + NLA_ALIGN(len), nested_len, policy); @@ -1080,11 +1078,11 @@ static inline int nla_nest_compat_end(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *start) * @start: container attribute * * Removes the container attribute and including all nested - * attributes. Returns -1. + * attributes. Returns -EMSGSIZE */ -static inline int nla_nest_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *start) +static inline void nla_nest_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *start) { - return nlmsg_trim(skb, start); + nlmsg_trim(skb, start); } /** |