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Subject[PATCH 3.12 50/94] netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump().
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From: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>

3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[ Upstream commit ac30ef832e6af0505b6f0251a6659adcfa74975e ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index e6d457c4a4e4..d9a2598a5190 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ static unsigned int netlink_poll(struct file *file, struct socket *sock,
while (nlk->cb_running && netlink_dump_space(nlk)) {
err = netlink_dump(sk);
if (err < 0) {
- sk->sk_err = err;
+ sk->sk_err = -err;
sk->sk_error_report(sk);
break;
}
@@ -2440,7 +2440,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) <= sk->sk_rcvbuf / 2) {
ret = netlink_dump(sk);
if (ret) {
- sk->sk_err = ret;
+ sk->sk_err = -ret;
sk->sk_error_report(sk);
}
}
--
2.0.1


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