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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2009-03-03 23:37:30 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-03-03 23:37:30 -0800
commit4843b93c96ae5043c6279c4ec6fcd8ee3866ff5b (patch)
tree58532635d403fba5b1514dfbf2c707f93b5ba1ed /net/netlink/af_netlink.c
parent17edde520927070a6bf14a6a75027c0b843443e5 (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/af_netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c10
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);