From 81378f728fe560e175fb2e8fd33206793567e896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:03:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix return value of ctnetlink_get_expect() This fixes one bogus error that is returned to user-space: libnetfilter_conntrack/utils# ./expect_get TEST: get expectation (-1)(Unknown error 18446744073709551504) This patch includes the correct handling for EAGAIN (nfnetlink uses this error value to restart the operation after module auto-loading). Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index ef21b221f036..3d7ea7af76fc 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -1869,25 +1869,30 @@ ctnetlink_get_expect(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb, err = -ENOMEM; skb2 = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); - if (skb2 == NULL) + if (skb2 == NULL) { + nf_ct_expect_put(exp); goto out; + } rcu_read_lock(); err = ctnetlink_exp_fill_info(skb2, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, IPCTNL_MSG_EXP_NEW, exp); rcu_read_unlock(); + nf_ct_expect_put(exp); if (err <= 0) goto free; - nf_ct_expect_put(exp); + err = netlink_unicast(ctnl, skb2, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, MSG_DONTWAIT); + if (err < 0) + goto out; - return netlink_unicast(ctnl, skb2, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, MSG_DONTWAIT); + return 0; free: kfree_skb(skb2); out: - nf_ct_expect_put(exp); - return err; + /* this avoids a loop in nfnetlink. */ + return err == -EAGAIN ? -ENOBUFS : err; } static int -- 2.20.1