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 3.15-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-3.15 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 10:16:13 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
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static unsigned int netlink_poll(struct
while (nlk->cb_running && 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;
}
@@ -2453,7 +2453,7 @@ static int netlink_recvmsg(struct kiocb
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-3.15/netlink-fix-handling-of-error-from-netlink_dump.patch
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