As the nla_nest_start() may fail with NULL returned, the return value needs to be checked. Fixes: c4ffee7c9bdb ("RDMA/netlink: Implement counter dumpit calback") Signed-off-by: Yuan Can <yuancan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c index 12dc97067ed2..f3309f07e466 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c @@ -894,6 +894,8 @@ static int fill_stat_counter_qps(struct sk_buff *msg, int ret = 0; table_attr = nla_nest_start(msg, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_RES_QP); + if (!table_attr) + return -EMSGSIZE; rt = &counter->device->res[RDMA_RESTRACK_QP]; xa_lock(&rt->xa); -- 2.17.1