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

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Message-Id: <20181224005453.9992-1-pakki001@umn.edu>
Date:   Sun, 23 Dec 2018 18:54:53 -0600
From:   Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
        Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/netlink_compat: Fix a missing check of nla_parse_nested

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>
---
 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 6376467e78f8..21f6ccc89401 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -951,8 +951,11 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_sk_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg,
 		u32 node;
 		struct nlattr *con[TIPC_NLA_CON_MAX + 1];
 
-		nla_parse_nested(con, TIPC_NLA_CON_MAX,
-				 sock[TIPC_NLA_SOCK_CON], NULL, NULL);
+		err = nla_parse_nested(con, TIPC_NLA_CON_MAX,
+				       sock[TIPC_NLA_SOCK_CON], NULL, NULL);
+
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 
 		node = nla_get_u32(con[TIPC_NLA_CON_NODE]);
 		tipc_tlv_sprintf(msg->rep, "  connected to <%u.%u.%u:%u>",
-- 
2.17.1