netlink: Add extack message to nlmsg_parse for invalid header length

Give a user a reason why EINVAL is returned in nlmsg_parse.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 589683091f16790290e368449349b9451bb09626..9522a0bf1f3af5046f713e99c7be75cc183b31c2 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -516,8 +516,10 @@ static inline int nlmsg_parse(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen,
                              const struct nla_policy *policy,
                              struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
 {
-       if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(hdrlen))
+       if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(hdrlen)) {
+               NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Invalid header length");
                return -EINVAL;
+       }
 
        return nla_parse(tb, maxtype, nlmsg_attrdata(nlh, hdrlen),
                         nlmsg_attrlen(nlh, hdrlen), policy, extack);