netdev - Re: [PATCH net] fib_rules: fix fib rule dumps across multiple skbs

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Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org, wkok@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] fib_rules: fix fib rule dumps across multiple skbs

From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:40:22 -0700

> From: Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> dump_rules returns skb length and not error.
> But when family == AF_UNSPEC, the caller of dump_rules
> assumes that it returns an error. Hence, when family == AF_UNSPEC,
> we continue trying to dump on -EMSGSIZE errors resulting in
> incorrect dump idx carried between skbs belonging to the same dump.
> This results in fib rule dump always only dumping rules that fit
> into the first skb.
> 
> This patch fixes dump_rules to return error so that we exit correctly
> and idx is correctly maintained between skbs that are part of the
> same dump.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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