On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 03:49:49PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > The underlying nlmsg_multicast() already sets sk->sk_err for us to > notify socket overruns, so we should not do anything with this return > value. So we just call nfnetlink_set_err() if: > > 1) We fail to allocate the netlink message. > > or > > 2) We don't have enough space in the netlink message to place the attribute, > which means that we likely need to allocate a larger message. > > Before this patch, the internal ESRCH netlink error code which is very > misleading. Netlink semantics mandate that listeners hit ENOBUFS if the > socket buffer overruns. > > Reported-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Alexander Alemayhu -- 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
