From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/nldev: missing error code in nldev_res_get_doit() Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:01:48 +0300 Message-ID: <20180201100148.GA8959@mwanda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kernel-janitors-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Ledford , Leon Romanovsky Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , Steve Wise , Mark Bloch , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org We should return -ENOMEM if the allocation fails. The current code accidentally returns success. Fixes: bf3c5a93c523 ("RDMA/nldev: Provide global resource utilization") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c index fa8655e3b3ed..5326a684555f 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c @@ -499,8 +499,10 @@ static int nldev_res_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, return -EINVAL; msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!msg) + if (!msg) { + ret = -ENOMEM; goto err; + } nlh = nlmsg_put(msg, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, RDMA_NL_GET_TYPE(RDMA_NL_NLDEV, RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_RES_GET),