linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [V2] infiniband: fix a missing check of nla

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Message-ID: <20190114210454.GA13422@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:04:54 -0700
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>,
        Daniel Jurgens <danielj@...lanox.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [V2] infiniband: fix a missing check of nla_put

On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 10:18:07AM -0600, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> nla_put() may fail. The fix adds a check for its return value, and
> returns -EMSGSIZE if it fails, post canceling netlink msg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Leon?

Jason