From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Looks like this patch got lost -- I cannot find in in linus' or net-2.6 trees... diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c index 5cb8d30..2b7eef3 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -972,7 +972,8 @@ ctnetlink_get_conntrack(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb, free: kfree_skb(skb2); out: - return err; + /* this avoids a loop in nfnetlink. */ + return err == -EAGAIN ? -ENOBUFS : err; } #ifdef CONFIG_NF_NAT_NEEDED -- 1.7.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
