[ovs-dev] [PATCH 04/15] netdev-linux: Avoid fiddling with indeterminate data.

[Ben Pfaff]

If we are using netlink to get stats and get_ifindex() fails, then for
an internal network device we will then swap around a bunch of
indeterminate (uninitialized) data values.  That won't hurt anything--the
caller will still set them to all-1-bits due to the error--but it still
seems wrong.  So this commit makes us give up immediately on error.

Found using Clang (http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/).
---
 lib/netdev-linux.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/netdev-linux.c b/lib/netdev-linux.c
index ccc3f84..8225b9c 100644
--- a/lib/netdev-linux.c
+++ b/lib/netdev-linux.c
@@ -1223,9 +1223,7 @@ netdev_linux_get_stats(const struct netdev *netdev_,
     COVERAGE_INC(netdev_get_stats);
 
     if (!(netdev_dev->cache_valid & VALID_IS_INTERNAL)) {
-        netdev_dev->is_internal = !strcmp(netdev_get_type(netdev_),
-                                                "tap");
-
+        netdev_dev->is_internal = !strcmp(netdev_get_type(netdev_), "tap");
         if (!netdev_dev->is_internal) {
             struct ethtool_drvinfo drvinfo;
 
@@ -1255,9 +1253,10 @@ netdev_linux_get_stats(const struct netdev *netdev_,
         int ifindex;
 
         error = get_ifindex(netdev_, &ifindex);
-        if (!error) {
-            error = get_stats_via_netlink(ifindex, collect_stats);
+        if (error) {
+            return error;
         }
+        error = get_stats_via_netlink(ifindex, collect_stats);
     } else {
         error = get_stats_via_proc(netdev_get_name(netdev_), collect_stats);
     }
-- 
1.6.6.1