netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: handle errors when updating asoc

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Message-Id: <20170620.153322.781087834282340962.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: handle errors when updating asoc

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:05:11 +0800

> It's a bad thing not to handle errors when updating asoc. The memory
> allocation failure in any of the functions called in sctp_assoc_update()
> would cause sctp to work unexpectedly.
> 
> This patch is to fix it by aborting the asoc and reporting the error when
> any of these functions fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Also applied, thank you.