Commit fef0035c authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld Committed by David S. Miller

netlink: do not proceed if dump's start() errs

Drivers that use the start method for netlink dumping rely on dumpit not
being called if start fails. For example, ila_xlat.c allocates memory
and assigns it to cb->args[0] in its start() function. It might fail to
do that and return -ENOMEM instead. However, even when returning an
error, dumpit will be called, which, in the example above, quickly
dereferences the memory in cb->args[0], which will OOPS the kernel. This
is but one example of how this goes wrong.

Since start() has always been a function with an int return type, it
therefore makes sense to use it properly, rather than ignoring it. This
patch thus returns early and does not call dumpit() when start() fails.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 3e7e0728
......@@ -2270,10 +2270,13 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
mutex_unlock(nlk->cb_mutex);
ret = 0;
if (cb->start)
cb->start(cb);
ret = cb->start(cb);
if (!ret)
ret = netlink_dump(sk);
ret = netlink_dump(sk);
sock_put(sk);
if (ret)
......
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