netdev - [PATCH v2 net-next 02/23] netlink: Add extack message to nlmsg

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Date:   Sun,  7 Oct 2018 20:16:23 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     christian@...uner.io, jbenc@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 02/23] netlink: Add extack message to nlmsg_parse for invalid header length

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Give a user a reason why EINVAL is returned in nlmsg_parse.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
---
 include/net/netlink.h | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 589683091f16..9522a0bf1f3a 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -516,8 +516,10 @@ static inline int nlmsg_parse(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen,
 			      const struct nla_policy *policy,
 			      struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
 {
-	if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(hdrlen))
+	if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(hdrlen)) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Invalid header length");
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	return nla_parse(tb, maxtype, nlmsg_attrdata(nlh, hdrlen),
 			 nlmsg_attrlen(nlh, hdrlen), policy, extack);
-- 
2.11.0