[PATCH 4.9 079/125] tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 46273cf7e009231d2b6bc10a926e82b8928a9fb2 ]

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@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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 63a913b238735..454ed8ea194c8 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -974,6 +974,8 @@ 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) {
-- 
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