From: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com
commit 39f3b41aa7cae917f928ef9f31d09da28188e5ed upstream.
Currently if attribute parsing fails and the genl family does not support parallel operation, the error code returned by __nlmsg_parse() is discarded by genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse().
Be sure to report the error for all genl families.
Fixes: c10e6cf85e7d ("net: genetlink: push attrbuf allocation and parsing to a separate function") Fixes: ab5b526da048 ("net: genetlink: always allocate separate attrs for dumpit ops") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko jiri@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -497,8 +497,9 @@ genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse(const st
err = __nlmsg_parse(nlh, hdrlen, attrbuf, family->maxattr, family->policy, validate, extack); - if (err && parallel) { - kfree(attrbuf); + if (err) { + if (parallel) + kfree(attrbuf); return ERR_PTR(err); } return attrbuf;