linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: socket: fix a missing check for nla_nest

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Message-Id: <20190316.113724.2004153142144465456.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 16 Mar 2019 11:37:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....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: socket: fix a missing check for nla_nest_start

From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:03:05 -0500

> nla_nest_start may fail. The fix check its status and returns
> -EMSGSIZE in case it fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>

The proper subsystem prefix is "tipc: " not "socket: "