netdev - [PATCH 3/7] net: FIX ipv6_forward sysctl restart

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 19:58:17 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] net: FIX ipv6_forward sysctl restart


Just returning -ERESTARTSYS without a signal pending is not
good that will just leak it to userspace.  We need return
-ERESTARTNOINTR so we always restart and set signal pending
so that we fall of the fast path of syscall return and setup
the system call restart.

So use restart_syscall() which does all of this for us.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index a8218bc..9eb61c7 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ static int addrconf_fixup_forwarding(struct ctl_table *table, int *p, int old)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!rtnl_trylock())
-		return -ERESTARTSYS;
+		return restart_syscall();
 
 	if (p == &net->ipv6.devconf_all->forwarding) {
 		__s32 newf = net->ipv6.devconf_all->forwarding;
-- 
1.6.0.6

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