On 10/2/15, 10:18 AM, Roland Dreier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> + err = fib_nl_fill_rule(skb, rule, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
>> + cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, RTM_NEWRULE,
>> + NLM_F_MULTI, ops);
>> + if (err)
> FWIW I believe this breaks pre-4.0 stable kernels (unfortunately it
> just showed up in 3.10.90). In kernels without 053c095a82cf
> ("netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void") then
> fib_nl_fill_rule() returns a positive value (skb->len) on success, so
> we break out of the loop here immediately. Symptom is "ip rule show"
> loops forever printing the first rule.
>
> After I finish testing a fix (as trivial as changing to "if (err <
> 0)") here, I'll send it to -stable guys.
>
Thanks for catching this.
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