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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2014-04-24 10:22:35 +1000
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-06-09 13:28:57 +0100
commit03feb50421447b8c910d02099a87da97462e98ee (patch)
treee714148d6b5d65f984c5fed8d0bd8473eb6b3319 /net
parenta5ab05f2e2a48a6b7e5efe12cbe07523a06fa963 (diff)
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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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-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 5b7d5f25d43e..978a367159a9 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
struct hlist_node *node;
struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_MAX+1];
u32 ext_filter_mask = 0;
+ int err;
s_h = cb->args[0];
s_idx = cb->args[1];
@@ -1077,11 +1078,17 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(dev, node, head, index_hlist) {
if (idx < s_idx)
goto cont;
- if (rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK,
- NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).pid,
- cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0,
- NLM_F_MULTI,
- ext_filter_mask) <= 0)
+ err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK,
+ NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).pid,
+ 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));