1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index c83fea7da9a8..56c3ce7fe29a 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ static int validate_nla(struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
                 if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len) + NLA_HDRLEN + nla_len(nla))
                         return -ERANGE;
                 break;
+        case NLA_NESTED:
+                /* a nested attributes is allowed to be empty; if its not,
+                 * it must have a size of at least NLA_HDRLEN.
+                 */
+                if (attrlen == 0)
+                        break;
         default:
                 if (pt->len)
                         minlen = pt->len;