We should return -ENOMEM if the allocation fails. The current code accidentally returns success. Fixes: bf3c5a93c523 ("RDMA/nldev: Provide global resource utilization") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c index fa8655e3b3ed..5326a684555f 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c @@ -499,8 +499,10 @@ static int nldev_res_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, return -EINVAL; msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!msg) + if (!msg) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err; + } nlh = nlmsg_put(msg, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, RDMA_NL_GET_TYPE(RDMA_NL_NLDEV, RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_RES_GET), -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html