From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Cc: minipli@googlemail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL #2
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:16:29 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120918.161629.143875439883330517.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120917071853.GD13023@secunet.com>
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:18:53 +0200
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:58:32PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> When dump_one_policy() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small
>> buffer to dump the whole xfrm policy, xfrm_policy_netlink() returns
>> NULL instead of an error pointer. But its caller expects an error
>> pointer and therefore continues to operate on a NULL skbuff.
>>
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
>
> Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-18 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-14 19:58 [PATCH] xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL #2 Mathias Krause
2012-09-17 7:18 ` Steffen Klassert
2012-09-18 20:16 ` David Miller [this message]
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