4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" gustavo@embeddedor.com
[ Upstream commit 0979962f5490abe75b3e2befb07a564fa0cf631b ]
It seems that the proper value to return in this particular case is the one contained into variable new_index instead of ret.
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1465148 ("Copy-paste error") Fixes: e46c7287b1c2 ("nbd: add a basic netlink interface") Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo@embeddedor.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ again: if (new_index < 0) { mutex_unlock(&nbd_index_mutex); printk(KERN_ERR "nbd: failed to add new device\n"); - return ret; + return new_index; } nbd = idr_find(&nbd_index_idr, new_index); }