This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ipv4: Remove unneed BUG() function
to the 5.12-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:
net-ipv4-remove-unneed-bug-function.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 452243244eefef1a0acfe8a61b90b6ab01d0980e
Author: Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 8 09:53:15 2021 +0800
net: ipv4: Remove unneed BUG() function
[ Upstream commit 5ac6b198d7e312bd10ebe7d58c64690dc59cc49a ]
When 'nla_parse_nested_deprecated' failed, it's no need to
BUG() here, return -EINVAL is ok.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 2e35f68da40a..1c6429c353a9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ static int inet_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla,
return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
if (nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb, IFLA_INET_MAX, nla, NULL, NULL) < 0)
- BUG();
+ return -EINVAL;
if (tb[IFLA_INET_CONF]) {
nla_for_each_nested(a, tb[IFLA_INET_CONF], rem)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index a9e53f5942fa..eab0a46983c0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -5822,7 +5822,7 @@ static int inet6_set_link_af(struct net_device *dev, const struct nlattr *nla,
return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
if (nla_parse_nested_deprecated(tb, IFLA_INET6_MAX, nla, NULL, NULL) < 0)
- BUG();
+ return -EINVAL;
if (tb[IFLA_INET6_TOKEN]) {
err = inet6_set_iftoken(idev, nla_data(tb[IFLA_INET6_TOKEN]),
