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Commit cbbdf843 authored by David Ahern's avatar David Ahern Committed by David S. Miller
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netlink: extack needs to be reset each time through loop



syzbot triggered the WARN_ON in netlink_ack testing the bad_attr value.
The problem is that netlink_rcv_skb loops over the skb repeatedly invoking
the callback and without resetting the extack leaving potentially stale
data. Initializing each time through avoids the WARN_ON.

Fixes: 2d4bc933 ("netlink: extended ACK reporting")
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+315fa6766d0f7c359327@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 59b36613
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