Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ctnetlink: fix loop in ctnetlink_get_conntrack()

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On 13/01/11 14:19, Florian Westphal wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, it's in Patrick's tree but it didn't get the patch to reach the
kernel. I'll pass it to davem.
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