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authorRichard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>2015-08-17 14:15:10 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-08-17 10:39:54 -0700
commit8f8ff9135b28a7560a5627aceaf289e3f0d4cd64 (patch)
tree8b772622f82142d1e4950d9985a8180580d0cdeb /net/tipc
parentda3cc2da7c08dc1f4371a4cc2eb83b22a0cf83a8 (diff)
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tipc: don't sanity check non-existing TLV (NL compat)
A zero length payload means that no TLV (Type Length Value) data has been passed. Prior to this patch a non-existing TLV could be sanity checked with TLV_OK() resulting in random behavior where a user sending an empty message occasionally got a incorrect "operation not supported" message back. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/netlink_compat.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index 53e0fee80086..1eadc95e1132 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
}
len = nlmsg_attrlen(req_nlh, GENL_HDRLEN + TIPC_GENL_HDRLEN);
- if (TLV_GET_LEN(msg.req) && !TLV_OK(msg.req, len)) {
+ if (len && !TLV_OK(msg.req, len)) {
msg.rep = tipc_get_err_tlv(TIPC_CFG_NOT_SUPPORTED);
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
goto send;
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