| Message ID | 20210927033457.1020967-4-shjy180909@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Commit | f43bed7193a36b1b4f73212ee0069f9113816856 |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | check return value of rhashtable_init in mlx5e, ipv6, mac80211 | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
|---|---|---|
| netdev/cover_letter | success | Link |
| netdev/fixes_present | success | Link |
| netdev/patch_count | success | Link |
| netdev/tree_selection | success | Clearly marked for net-next |
| netdev/subject_prefix | success | Link |
| netdev/cc_maintainers | success | CCed 5 of 5 maintainers |
| netdev/source_inline | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/verify_signedoff | success | Link |
| netdev/module_param | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/build_32bit | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/kdoc | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/verify_fixes | success | Link |
| netdev/checkpatch | success | total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 11 lines checked |
| netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/header_inline | success | Link |
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c index efbefcbac3ac..7cab1cf09bf1 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c @@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ static struct mesh_table *mesh_table_alloc(void) atomic_set(&newtbl->entries, 0); spin_lock_init(&newtbl->gates_lock); spin_lock_init(&newtbl->walk_lock); - rhashtable_init(&newtbl->rhead, &mesh_rht_params); + if (rhashtable_init(&newtbl->rhead, &mesh_rht_params)) { + kfree(newtbl); + return NULL; + } return newtbl; }
When rhashtable_init() fails, it returns -EINVAL. However, since error return value of rhashtable_init is not checked, it can cause use of uninitialized pointers. So, fix unhandled errors of rhashtable_init. Signed-off-by: MichelleJin <shjy180909@gmail.com> --- v1->v2: - change commit message - fix possible memory leaks v2->v3: - nothing changed v3-> v4: - nothing changed net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)