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| author | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2009-03-03 23:37:30 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-03 23:37:30 -0800 |
| commit | 4843b93c96ae5043c6279c4ec6fcd8ee3866ff5b (patch) | |
| tree | 58532635d403fba5b1514dfbf2c707f93b5ba1ed /net/netlink | |
| parent | 17edde520927070a6bf14a6a75027c0b843443e5 (diff) | |
netlink: invert error code in netlink_set_err()
The callers of netlink_set_err() currently pass a negative value
as parameter for the error code. However, sk->sk_err wants a
positive error value. Without this patch, skb_recv_datagram() called
by netlink_recvmsg() may return a positive value to report an error.
Another choice to fix this is to change callers to pass a positive
error value, but this seems a bit inconsistent and error prone
to me. Indeed, the callers of netlink_set_err() assumed that the
(usual) negative value for error codes was fine before this patch :).
This patch also includes some documentation in docbook format
for netlink_set_err() to avoid this sort of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 9eb895c7a2a..3ae3cb81656 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -1084,6 +1084,13 @@ out: return 0; } +/** + * netlink_set_err - report error to broadcast listeners + * @ssk: the kernel netlink socket, as returned by netlink_kernel_create() + * @pid: the PID of a process that we want to skip (if any) + * @groups: the broadcast group that will notice the error + * @code: error code, must be negative (as usual in kernelspace) + */ void netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, u32 pid, u32 group, int code) { struct netlink_set_err_data info; @@ -1093,7 +1100,8 @@ void netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, u32 pid, u32 group, int code) info.exclude_sk = ssk; info.pid = pid; info.group = group; - info.code = code; + /* sk->sk_err wants a positive error value */ + info.code = -code; read_lock(&nl_table_lock); |