linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 09/27] drop_monitor: add missing call to genlmsg

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Message-Id: <20170113113723.028386961@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:38:26 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Reiter Wolfgang <wr0112358@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 09/27] drop_monitor: add missing call to genlmsg_end

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Reiter Wolfgang <wr0112358@...il.com>


[ Upstream commit 4200462d88f47f3759bdf4705f87e207b0f5b2e4 ]

Update nlmsg_len field with genlmsg_end to enable userspace processing
using nlmsg_next helper. Also adds error handling.

Signed-off-by: Reiter Wolfgang <wr0112358@...il.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/drop_monitor.c |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/drop_monitor.c
+++ b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *reset_per_cpu_dat
 	struct nlattr *nla;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	void *msg_header;
 
 	al = sizeof(struct net_dm_alert_msg);
 	al += dm_hit_limit * sizeof(struct net_dm_drop_point);
@@ -87,17 +88,31 @@ static struct sk_buff *reset_per_cpu_dat
 
 	skb = genlmsg_new(al, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	if (skb) {
-		genlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, &net_drop_monitor_family,
-				0, NET_DM_CMD_ALERT);
-		nla = nla_reserve(skb, NLA_UNSPEC,
-				  sizeof(struct net_dm_alert_msg));
-		msg = nla_data(nla);
-		memset(msg, 0, al);
-	} else {
-		mod_timer(&data->send_timer, jiffies + HZ / 10);
+	if (!skb)
+		goto err;
+
+	msg_header = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, &net_drop_monitor_family,
+				 0, NET_DM_CMD_ALERT);
+	if (!msg_header) {
+		nlmsg_free(skb);
+		skb = NULL;
+		goto err;
+	}
+	nla = nla_reserve(skb, NLA_UNSPEC,
+			  sizeof(struct net_dm_alert_msg));
+	if (!nla) {
+		nlmsg_free(skb);
+		skb = NULL;
+		goto err;
 	}
+	msg = nla_data(nla);
+	memset(msg, 0, al);
+	genlmsg_end(skb, msg_header);
+	goto out;
 
+err:
+	mod_timer(&data->send_timer, jiffies + HZ / 10);
+out:
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);
 	swap(data->skb, skb);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);