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 4.4-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-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ec9ce9df31979ebb32874a89f724133fa63bda1d
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);
