[PATCH net-next v2 1/3] net: microchip: vcap api: Always return ERR_PTR for vcap_get_rule()

Ruan Jinjie ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Thu Aug 17 22:05:03 PDT 2023


As Simon Horman suggests, update vcap_get_rule() to always
return an ERR_PTR() and update the error detection conditions to
use IS_ERR(), which would be more cleaner in this case.

Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api.c
index a7b43f99bc80..300fe1a93dce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/vcap/vcap_api.c
@@ -2429,7 +2429,7 @@ struct vcap_rule *vcap_get_rule(struct vcap_control *vctrl, u32 id)
 
 	elem = vcap_get_locked_rule(vctrl, id);
 	if (!elem)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
 	rule = vcap_decode_rule(elem);
 	mutex_unlock(&elem->admin->lock);
-- 
2.34.1




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