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Subject: [PATCH 4.14 166/496] nbd: fix return value in error handling path
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 11:59:11 +0200
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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);
 		}