On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 08:09:10PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:39:25 +0200 > > > > > 3. change meaning of ->done() so its always called once ->start() > > > was invoked (and returned 0), this requires audit of all > > > places that provide .done to make sure they won't trip. > > > > > > 3) seems to be what Tom intended when he added .start, so probably > > > best to investigate that first. > > > > Hmmm... > > > > Any time ->start() succeeds, we set cb_running to true. > > Right. > > > From that point forward, ->done() will be called at some point at all > > of the locations that check if cb_running is true and set it to false. > > Also right, thanks for pointing this out, I missed fact that netlink > core restarts a dump after this. > > So 3) is already true which means we should try to see if we can move > all dump-related extra magic into ->start(). > > Shaochun, can you see if this is possible? > > Something along these lines (totally untested), which makes this > a netfilter fix: > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c > --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c > +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c > @@ -5010,6 +5013,22 @@ nft_obj_filter_alloc(const struct nlattr * const nla[]) > return filter; > } > > +static int nf_tables_dump_obj_start(struct netlink_callback *cb) > +{ > + const struct nlattr * const *nla = cb->data; > + struct nft_obj_filter *filter = NULL; > + > + if (nla[NFTA_OBJ_TABLE] || > + nla[NFTA_OBJ_TYPE]) { > + filter = nft_obj_filter_alloc(nla); > + if (IS_ERR(filter)) > + return -ENOMEM; > + } > + > + cb->data = filter; > + return 0; > +} > + > /* called with rcu_read_lock held */ > static int nf_tables_getobj(struct net *net, struct sock *nlsk, > struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, > @@ -5028,21 +5047,13 @@ static int nf_tables_getobj(struct net *net, struct sock *nlsk, > > if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) { > struct netlink_dump_control c = { > + .start = nf_tables_dump_obj_start, > .dump = nf_tables_dump_obj, > .done = nf_tables_dump_obj_done, > .module = THIS_MODULE, > + .data = (void *)nla, You cannot do this. nla is allocated in this stack. the nla will not be available in the second recv(), it won't be there. -- 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