Re: [PATCH] net: ieee802154: fix error return code of dgram_sendmsg()

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 08.03.2021 10:31, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> When sock_alloc_send_skb() returns NULL to skb, no error return code of
> dgram_sendmsg() is assigned.
> To fix this bug, err is assigned with -ENOMEM in this case.
> 

Please stop sending such nonsense. Basically all such patches you
sent so far are false positives. You have to start thinking,
don't blindly trust your robot.
In the case here the err variable is populated by sock_alloc_send_skb().

> Fixes: 78f821b64826 ("ieee802154: socket: put handling into one file")
> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/ieee802154/socket.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ieee802154/socket.c b/net/ieee802154/socket.c
> index a45a0401adc5..a750b37c7e73 100644
> --- a/net/ieee802154/socket.c
> +++ b/net/ieee802154/socket.c
> @@ -642,8 +642,10 @@ static int dgram_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t size)
>  	skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, hlen + tlen + size,
>  				  msg->msg_flags & MSG_DONTWAIT,
>  				  &err);
> -	if (!skb)
> +	if (!skb) {
> +		err = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto out_dev;
> +	}
>  
>  	skb_reserve(skb, hlen);
>  
>