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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] backports: genetlink: update completely
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:38:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1538505530.3126.49.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181002175107.16336-6-johannes@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20181002_195130_622184_25ABC8B0)

On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 19:51 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> +static int backport_pre_doit(__genl_const struct genl_ops *ops,
> +			     struct sk_buff *skb,
> +			     struct genl_info *info)
> +{
> +	const struct genl_family *family = find_family_real_ops(&ops);
> +	int err;
> +#if LINUX_VERSION_IS_LESS(4,12,0)
> +	struct netlink_ext_ack *extack = kzalloc(sizeof(*extack), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +	__bp_genl_info_userhdr_set(info, extack);
> +
> +	if (!extack) {
> +		__bp_genl_info_userhdr_set(info, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM));
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
> +
> +	extack->__bp_doit = ops->doit;
> +#else
> +	struct netlink_ext_ack *extack = info->extack;
> +#endif
> +
> +	err = nlmsg_validate(info->nlhdr, GENL_HDRLEN + family->hdrsize,
> +			     family->maxattr, ops->policy, extack);
> +	if (err)
> +		return err;
> +
> +	err = family->pre_doit(ops, skb, info);
> +
> +#if LINUX_VERSION_IS_LESS(4,12,0)
> +	if (err) {
> +		__bp_genl_info_userhdr_set(info, ERR_PTR(err));
> +		kfree(extack);
> +	}
> +#endif

This is wrong, it doesn't free the extack on errors.

We could also immediately send the ACK out, I think, and include the
error there.

johannes
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-02 17:51 [PATCH 1/6] backports: rename magic functions for netlink parsing Johannes Berg
2018-10-02 17:51 ` [PATCH 2/6] backports: fix genlmsg_nlhdr() backport Johannes Berg
2018-10-02 17:51 ` [PATCH 3/6] backports: add copy-list.hwsim Johannes Berg
2018-10-02 17:51 ` [PATCH 4/6] backports: backport most of improved netlink policy validation Johannes Berg
2018-10-02 17:51 ` [PATCH 5/6] backports: add __skb_peek() Johannes Berg
2018-10-02 17:51 ` [PATCH 6/6] backports: genetlink: update completely Johannes Berg
2018-10-02 18:38   ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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