xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL #2

When dump_one_policy() returns an error, e.g. because of a too small buffer to dump the whole xfrm policy, xfrm_policy_netlink() returns NULL instead of an error pointer. But its caller expects an error pointer and therefore continues to operate on a NULL skbuff. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]> Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
cbmeeks · Sep 18, 2012 · c254637 · c254637
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commit c254637
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -1548,6 +1548,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_policy_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 {
 	struct xfrm_dump_info info;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	int err;
 
 	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb)
@@ -1558,9 +1559,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *xfrm_policy_netlink(struct sk_buff *in_skb,
 	info.nlmsg_seq = seq;
 	info.nlmsg_flags = 0;
 
-	if (dump_one_policy(xp, dir, 0, &info) < 0) {
+	err = dump_one_policy(xp, dir, 0, &info);
+	if (err) {
 		kfree_skb(skb);
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 
 	return skb;