linux/net/netlink
Ben Pfaff ac30ef832e netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump().
netlink_dump() returns a negative errno value on error.  Until now,
netlink_recvmsg() directly recorded that negative value in sk->sk_err, but
that's wrong since sk_err takes positive errno values.  (This manifests as
userspace receiving a positive return value from the recv() system call,
falsely indicating success.) This bug was introduced in the commit that
started checking the netlink_dump() return value, commit b44d211 (netlink:
handle errors from netlink_dump()).

Multithreaded Netlink dumps are one way to trigger this behavior in
practice, as described in the commit message for the userspace workaround
posted here:
    http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-June/042339.html

This commit also fixes the same bug in netlink_poll(), introduced in commit
cd1df525d (netlink: add flow control for memory mapped I/O).

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-09 14:33:47 -07:00
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Kconfig netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig 2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
Makefile netlink: Diag core and basic socket info dumping (v2) 2013-03-21 12:38:03 -04:00
af_netlink.c netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump(). 2014-07-09 14:33:47 -07:00
af_netlink.h netlink: have netlink per-protocol bind function return an error code. 2014-04-22 21:42:26 -04:00
diag.c netlink: Fix build with mmap disabled. 2013-04-23 15:39:03 -04:00
genetlink.c genetlink: remove superfluous assignment 2014-06-02 10:36:18 -07:00