netdev - [PATCH] net: ncsi: fix a missing check for nla_nest

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Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:14:33 -0500
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: ncsi: fix a missing check for nla_nest_start

nla_nest_start may fail and thus deserves a check.

The fix returns -EMSGSIZE in case it fails.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
index 5d782445d2fc..bad17bba8ba7 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
@@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ static int ncsi_pkg_info_all_nl(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 	attr = nla_nest_start(skb, NCSI_ATTR_PACKAGE_LIST);
+	if (!attr) {
+		rc = -EMSGSIZE;
+		goto err;
+	}
 	rc = ncsi_write_package_info(skb, ndp, package->id);
 	if (rc) {
 		nla_nest_cancel(skb, attr);
-- 
2.17.1