This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tipc: check return value of nlmsg_new 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: tipc-check-return-value-of-nlmsg_new.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. >From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018 From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:09:19 +0800 Subject: tipc: check return value of nlmsg_new From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 78302fd405769c9a9379e9adda119d533dce2eed ] Function nlmsg_new() will return a NULL pointer if there is no enough memory, and its return value should be checked before it is used. However, in function tipc_nl_node_get_monitor(), the validation of the return value of function nlmsg_new() is missed. This patch fixes the bug. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/node.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/tipc/node.c +++ b/net/tipc/node.c @@ -2094,6 +2094,8 @@ int tipc_nl_node_get_monitor(struct sk_b int err; msg.skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!msg.skb) + return -ENOMEM; msg.portid = info->snd_portid; msg.seq = info->snd_seq; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bianpan2016@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tipc-check-return-value-of-nlmsg_new.patch queue-4.9/mt7601u-check-return-value-of-alloc_skb.patch queue-4.9/rndis_wlan-add-return-value-validation.patch queue-4.9/libertas-check-return-value-of-alloc_workqueue.patch queue-4.9/staging-wilc1000-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.9/qlcnic-fix-unchecked-return-value.patch queue-4.9/wan-pc300too-abort-path-on-failure.patch queue-4.9/power-supply-isp1704-fix-unchecked-return-value-of-devm_kzalloc.patch