[PATCH 5.5 43/46] net: genetlink: return the error code when attribute parsing fails.

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 39f3b41aa7cae917f928ef9f31d09da28188e5ed upstream.

Currently if attribute parsing fails and the genl family
does not support parallel operation, the error code returned
by __nlmsg_parse() is discarded by genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse().

Be sure to report the error for all genl families.

Fixes: c10e6cf85e7d ("net: genetlink: push attrbuf allocation and parsing to a separate function")
Fixes: ab5b526da048 ("net: genetlink: always allocate separate attrs for dumpit ops")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -497,8 +497,9 @@ genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse(const st
 
 	err = __nlmsg_parse(nlh, hdrlen, attrbuf, family->maxattr,
 			    family->policy, validate, extack);
-	if (err && parallel) {
-		kfree(attrbuf);
+	if (err) {
+		if (parallel)
+			kfree(attrbuf);
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 	return attrbuf;