This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ipv4: Remove unneed BUG() function to the 5.4-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: net-ipv4-remove-unneed-bug-function.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e7a05bf63f74e0f6cbc79ecfa894ec6dbacc5e6c 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 a27d034c85cc..603a3495afa6 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 52feab2baeee..366c3792b860 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -5761,7 +5761,7 @@ 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]));