On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 10:18:07AM -0600, Aditya Pakki wrote:
> nla_put() may fail. The fix adds a check for its return value, and
> returns -EMSGSIZE if it fails, post canceling netlink msg.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> index 0dce94e3c495..e847b34bacd1 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,10 @@ 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)) {
> + nlmsg_cancel(skb, nlh);
It should be nlmsg_free() and not nlmsg_cancel()
> + return -EMSGSIZE;
> + }
>
> /* Repair the nlmsg header length */
> nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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