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authorPablo Neira <pablo@netfilter.org>2013-07-29 12:30:04 +0200
committerMoyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2018-04-13 14:47:21 +0200
commit9fb6012d26b2d4335a3a3d19ec73a8a1c5a09de6 (patch)
treea3a30cefbef92ec1af1aa974f55a8273e090c525 /lib
parent552d7d58463e24a3eb4fefce58940891416492b7 (diff)
UPSTREAM: genetlink: fix usage of NLM_F_EXCL or NLM_F_REPLACE
Currently, it is not possible to use neither NLM_F_EXCL nor NLM_F_REPLACE from genetlink. This is due to this checking in genl_family_rcv_msg: if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) NLM_F_DUMP is NLM_F_MATCH|NLM_F_ROOT. Thus, if NLM_F_EXCL or NLM_F_REPLACE flag is set, genetlink believes that you're requesting a dump and it calls the .dumpit callback. The solution that I propose is to refine this checking to make it stricter: if ((nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) == NLM_F_DUMP) And given the combination NLM_F_REPLACE and NLM_F_EXCL does not make sense to me, it removes the ambiguity. There was a patch that tried to fix this some time ago (0ab03c2 netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite) but it tried to resolve this ambiguity in *all* existing netlink subsystems, not only genetlink. That patch was reverted since it broke iproute2, which is using NLM_F_ROOT to request the dump of the routing cache. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (cherry picked from commit e1ee3673a83cc02b6b5e43c9e647d8dd5e1c4e26) Change-Id: I1e7dfdfb1accfd22a171eb9a9a993e5b191dd27f
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