[PATCH] staging: gdm724x: add error handling for nlmsg_put

Zhouyang Jia jiazhouyang09 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 05:09:24 UTC 2018


When nlmsg_put fails, the lack of error-handling code may
cause unexpected results.

This patch adds error-handling code after calling nlmsg_put.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyang Jia <jiazhouyang09 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c
index abe2425..4623140 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/netlink_k.c
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ int netlink_send(struct sock *sock, int group, u16 type, void *msg, int len)
 	seq++;
 
 	nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, 0, seq, type, len, 0);
+	if (!nlh)
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+
 	memcpy(NLMSG_DATA(nlh), msg, len);
 	NETLINK_CB(skb).portid = 0;
 	NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = 0;
-- 
2.7.4



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