netfilter: ctnetlink: fix loop in ctnetlink_get_conntrack()

This patch fixes a loop in ctnetlink_get_conntrack() that can be
triggered if you use the same socket to receive events and to
perform a GET operation. Under heavy load, netlink_unicast()
may return -EAGAIN, this error code is reserved in nfnetlink for
the module load-on-demand. Instead, we return -ENOBUFS which is
the appropriate error code that has to be propagated to
user-space.

Reported-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This commit is contained in:
Pablo Neira Ayuso 2011-01-13 14:19:55 +01:00
parent 2fc72c7b84
commit f31e8d4982

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@ -972,7 +972,8 @@ ctnetlink_get_conntrack(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb,
free:
kfree_skb(skb2);
out:
return err;
/* this avoids a loop in nfnetlink. */
return err == -EAGAIN ? -ENOBUFS : err;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NF_NAT_NEEDED