This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump(). to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: netlink-fix-handling-of-error-from-netlink_dump.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Jul 26 10:03:51 PDT 2014 From: Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 10:31:22 -0700 Subject: netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump(). From: Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ac30ef832e6af0505b6f0251a6659adcfa74975e ] netlink_dump() returns a negative errno value on error. Until now, netlink_recvmsg() directly recorded that negative value in sk->sk_err, but that's wrong since sk_err takes positive errno values. (This manifests as userspace receiving a positive return value from the recv() system call, falsely indicating success.) This bug was introduced in the commit that started checking the netlink_dump() return value, commit b44d211 (netlink: handle errors from netlink_dump()). Multithreaded Netlink dumps are one way to trigger this behavior in practice, as described in the commit message for the userspace workaround posted here: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-June/042339.html This commit also fixes the same bug in netlink_poll(), introduced in commit cd1df525d (netlink: add flow control for memory mapped I/O). Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static unsigned int netlink_poll(struct while (nlk->cb != NULL && netlink_dump_space(nlk)) { err = netlink_dump(sk); if (err < 0) { - sk->sk_err = err; + sk->sk_err = -err; sk->sk_error_report(sk); break; } @@ -2272,7 +2272,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb if (nlk->cb && atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) <= sk->sk_rcvbuf / 2) { ret = netlink_dump(sk); if (ret) { - sk->sk_err = ret; + sk->sk_err = -ret; sk->sk_error_report(sk); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from blp@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/netlink-fix-handling-of-error-from-netlink_dump.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html