Re: [PATCH net] genetlink: Fix an error handling path in ctrl_dumppolicy_start()

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:03:06 +0100 Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> If this memory allocation fails, some resources need to be freed.
> Add the missing goto to the error handling path.
> 
> Fixes: b502b3185cd6 ("genetlink: use iterator in the op to policy map dumping")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch is speculative.
> 
> This function is a callback and I don't know how the core works and handles
> such situation, so review with care!

It's fine, the function has pretty much two completely separate paths.
Dump all ops and dump a single op.
Anything that allocs state before this point is on the single op path,
while the iterator is only allocated for dump all.
This should be evident from the return 0; at the end of the 
  if (tb[CTRL_ATTR_OP])

> More-over, should this kmalloc() be a kzalloc()?
> genl_op_iter_init() below does not initialize all fields, be they are maybe
> set correctly before uses.

It's fine, op_iters are put on the stack without initializing, iter
init must (and currently does) work without depending on zeroed memory.