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* [PATCH] infiniband: fix a missing check of nla_put
@ 2018-12-26  2:05 Kangjie Lu
  2018-12-26 19:50 ` Leon Romanovsky
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kangjie Lu @ 2018-12-26  2:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kjlu
  Cc: pakki001, Doug Ledford, Jason Gunthorpe, Leon Romanovsky,
	Parav Pandit, Daniel Jurgens, linux-rdma, linux-kernel

nla_put() may fail. The fix adds a check for its return value, and
returns -EMSGSIZE if it fails.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
index 0dce94e3c495..32d033ebaa5b 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ static int ib_nl_ip_send_msg(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
 	/* Construct the family header first */
 	header = skb_put(skb, NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(*header)));
 	header->ifindex = dev_addr->bound_dev_if;
-	nla_put(skb, attrtype, size, daddr);
+	if (nla_put(skb, attrtype, size, daddr))
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	/* Repair the nlmsg header length */
 	nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
-- 
2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)


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* Re: [PATCH] infiniband: fix a missing check of nla_put
  2018-12-26  2:05 [PATCH] infiniband: fix a missing check of nla_put Kangjie Lu
@ 2018-12-26 19:50 ` Leon Romanovsky
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Leon Romanovsky @ 2018-12-26 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kangjie Lu
  Cc: pakki001, Doug Ledford, Jason Gunthorpe, Parav Pandit,
	Daniel Jurgens, linux-rdma, linux-kernel

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On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 08:05:48PM -0600, Kangjie Lu wrote:
> nla_put() may fail. The fix adds a check for its return value, and
> returns -EMSGSIZE if it fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

The same comment as on previous patch, lack of netlink cancel.

Thanks

>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> index 0dce94e3c495..32d033ebaa5b 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ static int ib_nl_ip_send_msg(struct rdma_dev_addr *dev_addr,
>  	/* Construct the family header first */
>  	header = skb_put(skb, NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(*header)));
>  	header->ifindex = dev_addr->bound_dev_if;
> -	nla_put(skb, attrtype, size, daddr);
> +	if (nla_put(skb, attrtype, size, daddr))
> +		return -EMSGSIZE;
>
>  	/* Repair the nlmsg header length */
>  	nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
> --
> 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)
>

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