netdev - [PATCH] tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg

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Date:   Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:09:04 -0600
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....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] tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put

genlmsg_put could fail. The fix inserts a check of its return value, and
if it fails, returns -EMSGSIZE.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 6376467e78f8..764aa29612ea 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -904,6 +904,8 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_publ_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg, u32 sock)
 
 	hdr = genlmsg_put(args, 0, 0, &tipc_genl_family, NLM_F_MULTI,
 			  TIPC_NL_PUBL_GET);
+	if (!hdr)
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	nest = nla_nest_start(args, TIPC_NLA_SOCK);
 	if (!nest) {
-- 
2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)