[PATCH] tipc: fix a missing check of genlmsg_put

From: Kangjie Lu
Date: Wed Dec 26 2018 - 01:09:46 EST


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>
---
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)