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authorPan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>2017-04-23 15:09:19 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-03-24 11:00:14 +0100
commit185c88b1ef47f9b0a35b92e7a66d51b4acce2136 (patch)
treea086517c2bd180f6fcf73ffe3a9c9f5d3cc91c68 /net/tipc
parentabff7f51914942f1d1a80d674cb21aa48a534ba0 (diff)
tipc: check return value of nlmsg_new
[ Upstream commit 78302fd405769c9a9379e9adda119d533dce2eed ] Function nlmsg_new() will return a NULL pointer if there is no enough memory, and its return value should be checked before it is used. However, in function tipc_nl_node_get_monitor(), the validation of the return value of function nlmsg_new() is missed. This patch fixes the bug. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/node.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/node.c b/net/tipc/node.c
index 5b3e1ea37b6d..db8fbc076e1a 100644
--- a/net/tipc/node.c
+++ b/net/tipc/node.c
@@ -2094,6 +2094,8 @@ int tipc_nl_node_get_monitor(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
int err;
msg.skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!msg.skb)
+ return -ENOMEM;
msg.portid = info->snd_portid;
msg.seq = info->snd_seq;