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[NETLINK]: Don't BUG on undersized allocations

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Currently netlink users BUG when the allocated skb for an event
notification is undersized. While this is certainly a kernel bug,
its not critical and crashing the kernel is too drastic, especially
when considering that these errors have appeared multiple times in
the past and it BUGs even if no listeners are present.

This patch replaces BUG by WARN_ON and changes the notification
functions to inform potential listeners of undersized allocations
using a unique error code (EMSGSIZE).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy
2007-01-31 23:16:40 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 2cf6c36cb4
commit 26932566a4
12 changed files with 149 additions and 85 deletions
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net/decnet/dn_table.c
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@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ static int dn_fib_dump_info(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq, int event,
nlmsg_failure:
rtattr_failure:
skb_trim(skb, b - skb->data);
return -1;
return -EMSGSIZE;
}
@@ -368,9 +368,12 @@ static void dn_rtmsg_fib(int event, struct dn_fib_node *f, int z, u32 tb_id,
err = dn_fib_dump_info(skb, pid, nlh->nlmsg_seq, event, tb_id,
f->fn_type, f->fn_scope, &f->fn_key, z,
DN_FIB_INFO(f), 0);
/* failure implies BUG in dn_fib_nlmsg_size() */
BUG_ON(err < 0);
if (err < 0) {
/* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in dn_fib_nlmsg_size() */
WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
kfree_skb(skb);
goto errout;
}
err = rtnl_notify(skb, pid, RTNLGRP_DECnet_ROUTE, nlh, GFP_KERNEL);
errout:
if (err < 0)