netdev - [PATCH 3/3] netfilter: nfnetlink: don't probe module if it exists

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Date:	Wed,  4 Nov 2015 15:00:38 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] netfilter: nfnetlink: don't probe module if it exists

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

nfnetlink_bind request_module()s all the time as nfnetlink_get_subsys()
shifts the argument by 8 to obtain the subsys id.

So using type instead of type << 8 always returns NULL.

Fixes: 03292745b02d11 ("netlink: add nlk->netlink_bind hook for module auto-loading")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
index 70277b1..27b93da 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static int nfnetlink_bind(struct net *net, int group)
 	type = nfnl_group2type[group];
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type);
+	ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type << 8);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	if (!ss)
 		request_module("nfnetlink-subsys-%d", type);
-- 
2.1.4

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