Re: [PATCH net v11] tipc: fix NULL deref in tipc_named_node_up() on empty publication list

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Wed,  5 Aug 2026 23:13:09 +0700 Tung Nguyen wrote:
> User-space applications can bind a large number of service addresses to
> one or more sockets. Each binding of a local-scope service address inserts
> one entry (publication) into the TIPC name table. If the number of these
> publications exceeds TIPC_MAX_PUBL (65535), protocol service types
> (such as node state and link state) are no longer inserted into the name
> table. This causes two issues:

make htmldoc on the testing branch flagged:

Documentation/networking/tipc:184: ./net/tipc/name_distr.c:261: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. [docutils]
Documentation/networking/tipc:184: ./net/tipc/name_distr.c:262: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. [docutils]

+/**
+ * tipc_named_dist_cluster_scope - distribute all publications to specified node
+ * @net: the associated network namespace
+ * @dnode: destination node
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * 0 on success
+ * -EINVAL on failure, insert duplicate publication or reach the max number of
+ *  supported publications

is it this line ?

+ * -ENOBUFS on failure, no buffer space is available
+ */