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>
diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index feb326f..47bbf45 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -400,13 +400,13 @@
* @attrlen: length of attribute payload
* @data: head of attribute payload
*
- * Returns -1 if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
+ * Returns -EMSGSIZE if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
* the attribute header and payload.
*/
int nla_put(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype, int attrlen, const void *data)
{
if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < nla_total_size(attrlen)))
- return -1;
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
__nla_put(skb, attrtype, attrlen, data);
return 0;
@@ -418,13 +418,13 @@
* @attrlen: length of attribute payload
* @data: head of attribute payload
*
- * Returns -1 if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
+ * Returns -EMSGSIZE if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
* the attribute payload.
*/
int nla_put_nohdr(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
{
if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < NLA_ALIGN(attrlen)))
- return -1;
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
__nla_put_nohdr(skb, attrlen, data);
return 0;
@@ -436,13 +436,13 @@
* @attrlen: length of attribute payload
* @data: head of attribute payload
*
- * Returns -1 if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
+ * Returns -EMSGSIZE if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
* the attribute payload.
*/
int nla_append(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
{
if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < NLA_ALIGN(attrlen)))
- return -1;
+ return -EMSGSIZE;
memcpy(skb_put(skb, attrlen), data, attrlen);
return 0;