netfilter: nf_tables: don't call nfnetlink_set_err() if nfnetlink_send() fails

The underlying nlmsg_multicast() already sets sk->sk_err for us to
notify socket overruns, so we should not do anything with this return
value. So we just call nfnetlink_set_err() if:

1) We fail to allocate the netlink message.

or

2) We don't have enough space in the netlink message to place attributes,
   which means that we likely need to allocate a larger message.

Before this patch, the internal ESRCH netlink error code was propagated
to userspace, which is quite misleading. Netlink semantics mandate that
listeners just hit ENOBUFS if the socket buffer overruns.

Reported-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This commit is contained in:
Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-03-01 12:52:31 +01:00
parent f9121355eb
commit 25e94a997b
2 changed files with 58 additions and 81 deletions

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@@ -988,9 +988,9 @@ struct nft_object *nf_tables_obj_lookup(const struct nft_table *table,
const struct nlattr *nla, u32 objtype,
u8 genmask);
int nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, struct nft_table *table,
struct nft_object *obj, u32 portid, u32 seq,
int event, int family, int report, gfp_t gfp);
void nft_obj_notify(struct net *net, struct nft_table *table,
struct nft_object *obj, u32 portid, u32 seq,
int event, int family, int report, gfp_t gfp);
/**
* struct nft_object_type - stateful object type