netdev - [PATCH] ipsec: Fix error handling in the function xfrm6_get

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Date:	Tue,  5 Apr 2016 10:23:39 -0400
From:	Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@...il.com>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipsec: Fix error handling in the function xfrm6_get_addr

This fixes the error handling in the function xfrm_get_addr by
checking if the call to ipv6_dev_get_saddr has failed and if
so return -EADDRNOTAVAIL to signal to the caller of xfrm6_get_addr
that the call has failed the error should be handled by the caller
while also freeing the dst_entry structure pointer in use by this

Signed-off-by: Bastien Philbert <bastienphilbert@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
index c074771..759473e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
@@ -64,7 +64,10 @@ static int xfrm6_get_saddr(struct net *net, int oif,
 		return -EHOSTUNREACH;
 
 	dev = ip6_dst_idev(dst)->dev;
-	ipv6_dev_get_saddr(dev_net(dev), dev, &daddr->in6, 0, &saddr->in6);
+	if (ipv6_dev_get_saddr(dev_net(dev), dev, &daddr->in6, 0, &saddr->in6)) {
+		dst_release(dst);
+		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+	}
 	dst_release(dst);
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.5.0