netdev - [PATCH net] netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast

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Date:   Tue,  6 Feb 2018 14:48:32 +0100
From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()

Nowadays, nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH but this was not the
case when commit 134e63756d5f was pushed.
However, there was no reason to stop the loop if a netns does not have
listeners.
Returns -ESRCH only if there was no listeners in all netns.

To avoid having the same problem in the future, I didn't take the
assumption that nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH.

Fixes: 134e63756d5f ("genetlink: make netns aware")
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index d444daf1ac04..6f02499ef007 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@ static int genlmsg_mcast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, unsigned long group,
 {
 	struct sk_buff *tmp;
 	struct net *net, *prev = NULL;
+	bool delivered = false;
 	int err;
 
 	for_each_net_rcu(net) {
@@ -1092,14 +1093,21 @@ static int genlmsg_mcast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, unsigned long group,
 			}
 			err = nlmsg_multicast(prev->genl_sock, tmp,
 					      portid, group, flags);
-			if (err)
+			if (!err)
+				delivered = true;
+			else if (err != -ESRCH)
 				goto error;
 		}
 
 		prev = net;
 	}
 
-	return nlmsg_multicast(prev->genl_sock, skb, portid, group, flags);
+	err = nlmsg_multicast(prev->genl_sock, skb, portid, group, flags);
+	if (!err)
+		delivered = true;
+	else if (err != -ESRCH)
+		goto error;
+	return delivered ? 0 : -ESRCH;
  error:
 	kfree_skb(skb);
 	return err;
-- 
2.15.1