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| author | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2010-03-19 17:32:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> | 2010-03-25 16:56:09 +0100 |
| commit | 4a5a5c73b7cfee46a0b1411903cfa0dea532deec (patch) | |
| tree | 3f7ef0def4adf3a01e15ab3a2a7231967b87bfee /net/netfilter/xt_limit.c | |
| parent | d6b00a5345ce4e86e8b00a88bb84a2c0c1f69ddc (diff) | |
| download | linux-4a5a5c73b7cfee46a0b1411903cfa0dea532deec.tar.gz | |
netfilter: xtables: slightly better error reporting
When extended status codes are available, such as ENOMEM on failed
allocations, or subsequent functions (e.g. nf_ct_get_l3proto), passing
them up to userspace seems like a good idea compared to just always
EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netfilter/xt_limit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/xt_limit.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c index 5ff0580ce87880..e2a284ebb415a3 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_limit.c @@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ static int limit_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par) || user2credits(r->avg * r->burst) < user2credits(r->avg)) { pr_info("Overflow, try lower: %u/%u\n", r->avg, r->burst); - return -EINVAL; + return -ERANGE; } priv = kmalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (priv == NULL) - return -EINVAL; + return -ENOMEM; /* For SMP, we only want to use one set of state. */ r->master = priv; |