netfilter: xtables: slightly better error reporting

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / net / netfilter / xt_string.c

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_string.c b/net/netfilter/xt_string.c
index e1f22a7..b0f8292 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_string.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_string.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static int string_mt_check(const struct xt_mtchk_param *par)
        ts_conf = textsearch_prepare(conf->algo, conf->pattern, conf->patlen,
                                     GFP_KERNEL, flags);
        if (IS_ERR(ts_conf))
-               return -EINVAL;
+               return PTR_ERR(ts_conf);
 
        conf->config = ts_conf;
        return 0;