From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:42:13 +0100
Subject: net: genetlink: return the error code when attribute parsing fails.
Patch-mainline: v5.6-rc4
Git-commit: 39f3b41aa7cae917f928ef9f31d09da28188e5ed
References: bsc#1154353
Currently if attribute parsing fails and the genl family
does not support parallel operation, the error code returned
by __nlmsg_parse() is discarded by genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse().
Be sure to report the error for all genl families.
Fixes: c10e6cf85e7d ("net: genetlink: push attrbuf allocation and parsing to a separate function")
Fixes: ab5b526da048 ("net: genetlink: always allocate separate attrs for dumpit ops")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
net/netlink/genetlink.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -497,8 +497,9 @@ genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse(const st
err = __nlmsg_parse(nlh, hdrlen, attrbuf, family->maxattr,
family->policy, validate, extack);
- if (err && parallel) {
- kfree(attrbuf);
+ if (err) {
+ if (parallel)
+ kfree(attrbuf);
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
return attrbuf;