From 07660ca679da3007d3231938e2dfb415d3440716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kangjie Lu Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:14:33 -0500 Subject: net: ncsi: fix a missing check for nla_nest_start nla_nest_start may fail and thus deserves a check. The fix returns -EMSGSIZE in case it fails. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c index 5d782445d2fc..bad17bba8ba7 100644 --- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c +++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c @@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ static int ncsi_pkg_info_all_nl(struct sk_buff *skb, } attr = nla_nest_start(skb, NCSI_ATTR_PACKAGE_LIST); + if (!attr) { + rc = -EMSGSIZE; + goto err; + } rc = ncsi_write_package_info(skb, ndp, package->id); if (rc) { nla_nest_cancel(skb, attr); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b