4.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1d2a6a5e4bf2921531071fcff8538623dce74efa ]
Commit 2ae0f17df1cd ("genetlink: use idr to track families") replaced
if (++n < fams_to_skip)
continue;
into:
if (n++ < fams_to_skip)
continue;
This subtle change cause that on retry ctrl_dumpfamily() call we omit
one family that failed to do ctrl_fill_info() on previous call, because
cb->args[0] = n number counts also family that failed to do
ctrl_fill_info().
Patch fixes the problem and avoid confusion in the future just decrease
n counter when ctrl_fill_info() fail.
User visible problem caused by this bug is failure to get access to
some genetlink family i.e. nl80211. However problem is reproducible
only if number of registered genetlink families is big enough to
cause second call of ctrl_dumpfamily().
Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 2ae0f17df1cd ("genetlink: use idr to track families")
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netlink/genetlink.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -783,8 +783,10 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buf
if (ctrl_fill_info(rt, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLM_F_MULTI,
- skb, CTRL_CMD_NEWFAMILY) < 0)
+ skb, CTRL_CMD_NEWFAMILY) < 0) {
+ n--;
break;
+ }
}
cb->args[0] = n;