In case of OOM, there's nothing userspace can do. If there's no room to put the payload in __build_packet_message(), jump to nla_put_failure which already performs the corresponding error reporting. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c index 5f1be5b..cd99294 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c @@ -337,9 +337,6 @@ nfulnl_alloc_skb(struct net *net, u32 peer_portid, unsigned int inst_size, skb = nfnetlink_alloc_skb(net, pkt_size, peer_portid, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!skb) - pr_err("nfnetlink_log: can't even alloc %u bytes\n", - pkt_size); } } @@ -570,10 +567,8 @@ __build_packet_message(struct nfnl_log_net *log, struct nlattr *nla; int size = nla_attr_size(data_len); - if (skb_tailroom(inst->skb) < nla_total_size(data_len)) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "nfnetlink_log: no tailroom!\n"); - return -1; - } + if (skb_tailroom(inst->skb) < nla_total_size(data_len)) + goto nla_put_failure; nla = (struct nlattr *)skb_put(inst->skb, nla_total_size(data_len)); nla->nla_type = NFULA_PAYLOAD; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html