Re: [PATCH] infiniband: fix a missing check of nla_put

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On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 08:05:48PM -0600, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> nla_put() may fail. The fix adds a check for its return value, and
> returns -EMSGSIZE if it fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

The same comment as on previous patch, lack of netlink cancel.

Thanks

>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> index 0dce94e3c495..32d033ebaa5b 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ static int ib_nl_ip_send_msg(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
>  	/* Construct the family header first */
>  	header = skb_put(skb, NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(*header)));
>  	header->ifindex = dev_addr->bound_dev_if;
> -	nla_put(skb, attrtype, size, daddr);
> +	if (nla_put(skb, attrtype, size, daddr))
> +		return -EMSGSIZE;
>
>  	/* Repair the nlmsg header length */
>  	nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
> --
> 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)
>

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