On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:45 PM Florent Revest <revest@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Currently, the sock_from_file prototype takes an "err" pointer that is > either not set or set to -ENOTSOCK IFF the returned socket is NULL. This > makes the error redundant and it is ignored by a few callers. > > This patch simplifies the API by letting callers deduce the error based > on whether the returned socket is NULL or not. > > Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>