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authorxu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>2023-08-07 01:54:08 +0000
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-08-08 15:35:51 -0700
commitc67180efc507e04a87f22aa68bd7dd832db006b7 (patch)
treeaa0dc43aa734f5c3bb4e30544e80586cf0d59e42 /net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
parent3337022baba978a94922ceac74ca5e6a7e47c4ef (diff)
net/ipv4: return the real errno instead of -EINVAL
For now, No matter what error pointer ip_neigh_for_gw() returns, ip_finish_output2() always return -EINVAL, which may mislead the upper users. For exemple, an application uses sendto to send an UDP packet, but when the neighbor table overflows, sendto() will get a value of -EINVAL, and it will cause users to waste a lot of time checking parameters for errors. Return the real errno instead of -EINVAL. Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Cc: Si Hao <si.hao@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807015408.248237-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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