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nbd_genl_status: null check for nla_nest_start

Message ID 20190723230157.14484-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series nbd_genl_status: null check for nla_nest_start | expand

Commit Message

Navid Emamdoost July 23, 2019, 11:01 p.m. UTC
nla_nest_start may fail and return NULL. The check is inserted, and
errno is selected based on other call sites within the same source code.

Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/block/nbd.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Comments

Josef Bacik July 29, 2019, 1:09 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 06:01:57PM -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> nla_nest_start may fail and return NULL. The check is inserted, and
> errno is selected based on other call sites within the same source code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/nbd.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> index 9bcde2325893..dba362de4d91 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> @@ -2149,6 +2149,12 @@ static int nbd_genl_status(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
>  	}
>  
>  	dev_list = nla_nest_start_noflag(reply, NBD_ATTR_DEVICE_LIST);
> +

No newline here, once you fix that nit you can add

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

Thanks,

Josef
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diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 9bcde2325893..dba362de4d91 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -2149,6 +2149,12 @@  static int nbd_genl_status(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	}
 
 	dev_list = nla_nest_start_noflag(reply, NBD_ATTR_DEVICE_LIST);
+
+	if (!dev_list) {
+		ret = -EMSGSIZE;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (index == -1) {
 		ret = idr_for_each(&nbd_index_idr, &status_cb, reply);
 		if (ret) {