linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/netlink_compat: Fix a missing check of nla_parse

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Date:   Mon, 24 Dec 2018 14:42:36 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, jon.maloy@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/netlink_compat: Fix a missing check of
 nla_parse_nested

From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:54:53 -0600

> In tipc_nl_compat_sk_dump(), if nla_parse_nested() fails, it could return
> an error. To be consistent with other invocations of the function call,
> on error, the fix passes the return value upstream.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>

Applied, thanks.