This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv4: Fix incorrect error code when adding an unreachable route 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: ipv4-fix-incorrect-error-code-when-adding-an-unreachable-route.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 Wed Dec 3 17:07:11 PST 2014 From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:14:32 +0200 Subject: ipv4: Fix incorrect error code when adding an unreachable route From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 49dd18ba4615eaa72f15c9087dea1c2ab4744cf5 ] Trying to add an unreachable route incorrectly returns -ESRCH if if custom FIB rules are present: [root@localhost ~]# ip route add 74.125.31.199 dev eth0 via 1.2.3.4 RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable [root@localhost ~]# ip rule add to 55.66.77.88 table 200 [root@localhost ~]# ip route add 74.125.31.199 dev eth0 via 1.2.3.4 RTNETLINK answers: No such process [root@localhost ~]# Commit 83886b6b636173b206f475929e58fac75c6f2446 ("[NET]: Change "not found" return value for rule lookup") changed fib_rules_lookup() to use -ESRCH as a "not found" code internally, but for user space it should be translated into -ENETUNREACH. Handle the translation centrally in ipv4-specific fib_lookup(), leaving the DECnet case alone. On a related note, commit b7a71b51ee37d919e4098cd961d59a883fd272d8 ("ipv4: removed redundant conditional") removed a similar translation from ip_route_input_slow() prematurely AIUI. Fixes: b7a71b51ee37 ("ipv4: removed redundant conditional") Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/fib_rules.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_rules.c @@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ int __fib_lookup(struct net *net, struct else res->tclassid = 0; #endif + + if (err == -ESRCH) + err = -ENETUNREACH; + return err; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__fib_lookup); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ipv4-fix-incorrect-error-code-when-adding-an-unreachable-route.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