kernel will crash in oops if genlmsg_put return NULL, so add the sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishu...@cmss.chinamobile.com> --- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c index 2d4c4d3..ceb1b1e 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c @@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ static int queue_userspace_packet(struct datapath *dp, struct sk_buff *skb, upcall = genlmsg_put(user_skb, 0, 0, &dp_packet_genl_family, 0, upcall_info->cmd); + if (!upcall) { + err = -EMSGSIZE; + goto out; + } upcall->dp_ifindex = dp_ifindex; err = ovs_nla_put_key(key, key, OVS_PACKET_ATTR_KEY, false, user_skb); -- 1.8.3.1