The patch titled
Subject: ipc/mqueue: improve exception handling in do_mq_notify()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ipc-mqueue-improve-exception-handling-in-do_mq_notify.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ipc/mqueue: improve exception handling in do_mq_notify()
Null pointers were assigned to local variables in a few cases as exception
handling. The jump target “out” was used where no meaningful data
processing actions should eventually be performed by branches of an if
statement then. Use an additional jump target for calling dev_kfree_skb()
directly.
Return also directly after error conditions were detected when no extra
clean-up is needed by this function implementation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/592ef10e-0b69-72d0-9789-fc48f638fdfd@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/mqueue.c | 20 ++++++++------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c~ipc-mqueue-improve-exception-handling-in-do_mq_notify
+++ a/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -1240,15 +1240,14 @@ static int do_mq_notify(mqd_t mqdes, con
/* create the notify skb */
nc = alloc_skb(NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!nc) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (!nc)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
if (copy_from_user(nc->data,
notification->sigev_value.sival_ptr,
NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
- goto out;
+ goto free_skb;
}
/* TODO: add a header? */
@@ -1264,8 +1263,7 @@ retry:
fdput(f);
if (IS_ERR(sock)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(sock);
- sock = NULL;
- goto out;
+ goto free_skb;
}
timeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
@@ -1274,11 +1272,8 @@ retry:
sock = NULL;
goto retry;
}
- if (ret) {
- sock = NULL;
- nc = NULL;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
}
}
@@ -1334,6 +1329,7 @@ out:
if (sock)
netlink_detachskb(sock, nc);
else
+free_skb:
dev_kfree_skb(nc);
return ret;
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
