Re: [PATCH][next] xfrm: Add error handling when nla_put_u32() returns an error

[Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>]

On 11/13/24 00:36, Everest K.C. wrote:
> Error handling is missing when call to nla_put_u32() fails.
> Handle the error when the call to nla_put_u32() returns an error.
> 
> The error was reported by Coverity Scan.
> Report:
> CID 1601525: (#1 of 1): Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE)
> returned_value: Assigning value from nla_put_u32(skb, XFRMA_SA_PCPU, x->pcpu_num)
> to err here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used
> 
> Fixes: 1ddf9916ac09 ("xfrm: Add support for per cpu xfrm state handling.")
> Signed-off-by: Everest K.C. <everestkc@everestkc.com.np>
> ---
>   net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
> index f0ee0c7a59dd..a784598cc7cf 100644
> --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
> +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
> @@ -2607,9 +2607,12 @@ static int build_aevent(struct sk_buff *skb, struct xfrm_state *x, const struct
>   	err = xfrm_if_id_put(skb, x->if_id);
>   	if (err)
>   		goto out_cancel;
> -	if (x->pcpu_num != UINT_MAX)
> +	if (x->pcpu_num != UINT_MAX) {
>   		err = nla_put_u32(skb, XFRMA_SA_PCPU, x->pcpu_num);
> -
> +		if (err)
> +			goto out_cancel;
> +	}
> +
>   	if (x->dir) {
>   		err = nla_put_u8(skb, XFRMA_SA_DIR, x->dir);
>   		if (err)

this is a fix indeed,
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
--
I find nla_put*() familiy error handling very ugly for the calling code,
especially given that some of the calls are conditional

I would like to refactor it some day, to give the caller possibility to
just put all the needed fields and check the error once at the end.
Nesting complicates things a bit, but perhaps it could be also covered
in such way (didn't checked yet).