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")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/block/nbd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 5f2a424..86258b0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ static int nbd_genl_connect(struct sk_buff *skb, struct 
genl_info *info)
                        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);
                }
-- 
2.7.4

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