This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ieee802154: fix error return code in ieee802154_add_iface() to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ieee802154-fix-error-return-code-in-ieee802154_add_i.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4748b853accd92734bf0676c56eb969f4fb356db Author: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 8 14:25:17 2021 +0800 ieee802154: fix error return code in ieee802154_add_iface() [ Upstream commit 79c6b8ed30e54b401c873dbad2511f2a1c525fd5 ] Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function. Fixes: be51da0f3e34 ("ieee802154: Stop using NLA_PUT*().") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210508062517.2574-1-thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c index 77d73014bde3..11f53dc0c1c0 100644 --- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c +++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c @@ -249,8 +249,10 @@ int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) } if (nla_put_string(msg, IEEE802154_ATTR_PHY_NAME, wpan_phy_name(phy)) || - nla_put_string(msg, IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_NAME, dev->name)) + nla_put_string(msg, IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_NAME, dev->name)) { + rc = -EMSGSIZE; goto nla_put_failure; + } dev_put(dev); wpan_phy_put(phy);