proc_fs was used, in af_packet, without a surrounding #ifdef,
although there is no hard dependency on proc_fs.
That caused the initialization of the af_packet module to fail
when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n.
Specifically, proc_create_net() was used in af_packet.c,
and when it fails, packet_net_init() returns -ENOMEM.
It will always fail when the kernel is compiled without proc_fs,
because, proc_create_net() for example always returns NULL.
The calling order that starts in af_packet.c is as follows:
packet_init()
register_pernet_subsys()
register_pernet_operations()
__register_pernet_operations()
ops_init()
ops->init() (packet_net_ops.init=packet_net_init())
proc_create_net()
It worked in the past because register_pernet_subsys()'s return value
wasn't checked before this Commit 36096f2f4fa0 ("packet: Fix error path in
packet_init.").
It always returned an error, but was not checked before, so everything
was working even when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n.
The fix here is simply to add the necessary #ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Yonatan Linik <yonatanlinik@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/packet/af_packet.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 2b33e977a905..031f2b593720 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -4612,9 +4612,11 @@ static int __net_init packet_net_init(struct net *net)
mutex_init(&net->packet.sklist_lock);
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&net->packet.sklist);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
if (!proc_create_net("packet", 0, net->proc_net, &packet_seq_ops,
sizeof(struct seq_net_private)))
return -ENOMEM;
+#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
return 0;
}
--
2.25.1
