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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: "Everest K.C." <everestkc@everestkc.com.np>
Cc: steffen.klassert@secunet.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] xfrm: Add error handling when nla_put_u32() returns an error
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:59:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241113105939.GY4507@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241112233613.6444-1-everestkc@everestkc.com.np>

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 04:36:06PM -0700, Everest K.C. wrote:
> Error handling is missing when call to nla_put_u32() fails.
> Handle the error when the call to nla_put_u32() returns an error.
> 
> The error was reported by Coverity Scan.
> Report:
> CID 1601525: (#1 of 1): Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE)
> returned_value: Assigning value from nla_put_u32(skb, XFRMA_SA_PCPU, x->pcpu_num)
> to err here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used
> 
> Fixes: 1ddf9916ac09 ("xfrm: Add support for per cpu xfrm state handling.")
> Signed-off-by: Everest K.C. <everestkc@everestkc.com.np>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

For future reference, I think the appropriate target for this tree
is ipsec-next rather than next.

	Subject: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: ...

...

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-13 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-12 23:36 [PATCH][next] xfrm: Add error handling when nla_put_u32() returns an error Everest K.C.
2024-11-13 10:59 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2024-11-13 13:10   ` Dan Carpenter
2024-11-13 14:06     ` Dan Carpenter
2024-11-13 17:59     ` Simon Horman
2024-11-14 19:27   ` Everest K.C.
2024-11-15  8:07     ` Steffen Klassert
2024-11-13 14:12 ` Przemek Kitszel

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