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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2014-04-24 04:22:35 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-05-31 08:52:15 +0400
commit1ab27dd7edb75bc3034daab503a912647bdf95ba (patch)
tree2a52a8493b89700a179f3bd00e8671baa6f1ea25 /net/core
parenteac664d2832178c1d3a5e7560a26c10001717b77 (diff)
downloadlinux-1ab27dd7edb75bc3034daab503a912647bdf95ba.tar.xz
rtnetlink: Warn when interface's information won't fit in our packet
[ Upstream commit 973462bbde79bb827824c73b59027a0aed5c9ca6 ] Without IFLA_EXT_MASK specified, the information reported for a single interface in response to RTM_GETLINK is expected to fit within a netlink packet of NLMSG_GOODSIZE. If it doesn't, however, things will go badly wrong, When listing all interfaces, netlink_dump() will incorrectly treat -EMSGSIZE on the first message in a packet as the end of the listing and omit information for that interface and all subsequent ones. This can cause getifaddrs(3) to enter an infinite loop. This patch won't fix the problem, but it will WARN_ON() making it easier to track down what's going wrong. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 4c3087dffe78..5bfec2864bb8 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1039,6 +1039,7 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
struct hlist_head *head;
struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_MAX+1];
u32 ext_filter_mask = 0;
+ int err;
s_h = cb->args[0];
s_idx = cb->args[1];
@@ -1059,11 +1060,17 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(dev, head, index_hlist) {
if (idx < s_idx)
goto cont;
- if (rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK,
- NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
- cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0,
- NLM_F_MULTI,
- ext_filter_mask) <= 0)
+ err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK,
+ NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
+ cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0,
+ NLM_F_MULTI,
+ ext_filter_mask);
+ /* If we ran out of room on the first message,
+ * we're in trouble
+ */
+ WARN_ON((err == -EMSGSIZE) && (skb->len == 0));
+
+ if (err <= 0)
goto out;
nl_dump_check_consistent(cb, nlmsg_hdr(skb));