genetlink: fix error return code in genl_register_family()
Fix to return a negative error code from the idr_alloc() error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Also fix the return value check of idr_alloc() since idr_alloc return
negative errors on failure, not zero.
Fixes: 2ae0f17df1cd ("genetlink: use idr to track families")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index caf04d7..bbd3bff 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -362,8 +362,10 @@ int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family)
family->id = idr_alloc(&genl_fam_idr, family,
start, end + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!family->id)
+ if (family->id < 0) {
+ err = family->id;
goto errout_locked;
+ }
err = genl_validate_assign_mc_groups(family);
if (err)