tipc: check return value of nlmsg_new
authorPan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 07:09:19 +0000 (15:09 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:00:14 +0000 (11:00 +0100)
commit185c88b1ef47f9b0a35b92e7a66d51b4acce2136
treea086517c2bd180f6fcf73ffe3a9c9f5d3cc91c68
parentabff7f51914942f1d1a80d674cb21aa48a534ba0
tipc: check return value of nlmsg_new

[ Upstream commit 78302fd405769c9a9379e9adda119d533dce2eed ]

Function nlmsg_new() will return a NULL pointer if there is no enough
memory, and its return value should be checked before it is used.
However, in function tipc_nl_node_get_monitor(), the validation of the
return value of function nlmsg_new() is missed. This patch fixes the
bug.

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/tipc/node.c