netdev - [patch] netfilter: nft_exthdr: fix error handling in nft_exthdr

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Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:09:12 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@...il.com>
Cc:     Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] netfilter: nft_exthdr: fix error handling in
 nft_exthdr_init()

"err" needs to be signed for the error handling to work.

Fixes: 36b701fae12a ('netfilter: nf_tables: validate maximum value of u32 netlink attributes')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
index a84cf3d..47beb3a 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ static int nft_exthdr_init(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 			   const struct nlattr * const tb[])
 {
 	struct nft_exthdr *priv = nft_expr_priv(expr);
-	u32 offset, len, err;
+	u32 offset, len;
+	int err;
 
 	if (tb[NFTA_EXTHDR_DREG] == NULL ||
 	    tb[NFTA_EXTHDR_TYPE] == NULL ||