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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:48:34 +0200
From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
To: Martin Townsend <martin.townsend@xsilon.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 bluetooth] 6lowpan: fix incorrect return values in
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Hi Martin,

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:40:24PM +0100, Martin Townsend wrote:
...
> 
> Yes I see the problem now, maybe it's better to revert back to skb_inout, less chance of introducing bugs and then we have a well defined return value.
> 

No problem, for me it's okay, if this is okay for Jukka, we can change
it later to a better behaviour. Jukka please answer what you think about this.

I also did a small c example because this now:

char *foo(char *buf)
{
        char *new;

        if (some_error)
                return NULL;

        if (some_error)
                return NULL;

        new = expand(buf, 23);
        if (!new)
                return NULL;

        free(buf);
        buf = new;

	/* buf is now different than the parameter buf */
        if (some_error)
                return NULL;
             
        return buf;
}             
              
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{             
        char *local_buf = malloc(42);
        char *buf;
             
        buf = foo(local_buf);
        if (!buf) {
                /* BUG */
                /* we don't know if local_buf is still valid. */
                free(local_buf);
        }        
                 
        return 0;
}

I think if you do buf = foo(buf) you can rescue it but this doesn't
look like a clean solution for me.

- Alex