netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink

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Date:	Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:34:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	blp@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump().

From: Ben Pfaff <blp@...ira.com>
Date: Wed,  9 Jul 2014 10:31:22 -0700

> 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@...ira.com>
> ---
> v1->v2: Fix same bug in another place, as requested by Dave Miller.

Applied, thank you.
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