On 09.03.2021 09:33, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> When kcalloc() returns NULL to nl_table, no error return code of
> netlink_proto_init() is assigned.
> To fix this bug, err is assigned with -ENOMEM in this case.
>
Didn't we talk enough about your incorrect patches yesterday?
This one is incorrect again. panic() never returns.
Stop sending patches until you understand the code you're changing!
> Fixes: fab2caf62ed0 ("[NETLINK]: Call panic if nl_table allocation fails")
> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <os...@tsinghua.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com>
> ---
> net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> index dd488938447f..9ab66cfb1037 100644
> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> @@ -2880,8 +2880,10 @@ static int __init netlink_proto_init(void)
> BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct netlink_skb_parms) > sizeof_field(struct
> sk_buff, cb));
>
> nl_table = kcalloc(MAX_LINKS, sizeof(*nl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!nl_table)
> + if (!nl_table) {
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> goto panic;
> + }
>
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_LINKS; i++) {
> if (rhashtable_init(&nl_table[i].hash,
>
