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From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>,
	emamd001@umn.edu, smccaman@umn.edu, kjlu@umn.edu,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] nbd_genl_status: null check for nla_nest_start
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:42:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191021064210.GD27784@unicorn.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190911164013.27364-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:40:12AM -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.
> Update: removed extra new line.
> v3 Update: added release reply, thanks to Michal Kubecek for pointing
> out.
> 
> 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 e21d2ded732b..8a9712181c2a 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) {
> +		nlmsg_free(reply);
> +		ret = -EMSGSIZE;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (index == -1) {
>  		ret = idr_for_each(&nbd_index_idr, &status_cb, reply);
>  		if (ret) {

Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-21  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-23 23:01 [PATCH] nbd_genl_status: null check for nla_nest_start Navid Emamdoost
2019-07-29 13:09 ` Josef Bacik
2019-07-29 16:42   ` [PATCH v2] " Navid Emamdoost
2019-07-30  5:52     ` [engineering.redhat.com #494735] Re: [PATCH] " Red Hat Product Security
2019-07-30  6:05     ` [PATCH v2] " Bob Liu
2019-09-10 11:35     ` Michal Kubecek
2019-09-11 16:40       ` [PATCH v3] " Navid Emamdoost
2019-10-21  6:42         ` Michal Kubecek [this message]
2021-04-14  3:05           ` Mark-PK Tsai
2019-10-17  2:17       ` [PATCH v2] " Navid Emamdoost
2019-10-17 19:37         ` [engineering.redhat.com #498403] " Red Hat Product Security

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