Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:01:46 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: ctnetlink loop | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:56:13 +0100
> netfilter: ctnetlink: fix loop in ctnetlink_get_conntrack() > > From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> > > This patch fixes a loop in ctnetlink_get_conntrack() that can be > triggered if you use the same socket to receive events and to > perform a GET operation. Under heavy load, netlink_unicast() > may return -EAGAIN, this error code is reserved in nfnetlink for > the module load-on-demand. Instead, we return -ENOBUFS which is > the appropriate error code that has to be propagated to > user-space. > > Reported-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Since Patrick seems to be inactive I have applied this directly to net-2.6, thanks guys!
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