From ac30ef832e6af0505b6f0251a6659adcfa74975e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 10:31:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] netlink: Fix handling of error from netlink_dump(). netlink_dump() returns a negative errno value on error. Until now, netlink_recvmsg() directly recorded that negative value in sk->sk_err, but that's wrong since sk_err takes positive errno values. (This manifests as userspace receiving a positive return value from the recv() system call, falsely indicating success.) This bug was introduced in the commit that started checking the netlink_dump() return value, commit b44d211 (netlink: handle errors from netlink_dump()). Multithreaded Netlink dumps are one way to trigger this behavior in practice, as described in the commit message for the userspace workaround posted here: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-June/042339.html This commit also fixes the same bug in netlink_poll(), introduced in commit cd1df525d (netlink: add flow control for memory mapped I/O). Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed