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<title>netlink: Don't shift on 64 for ngroups</title>
<updated>2018-08-09T10:17:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
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<published>2018-08-05T00:35:53+00:00</published>
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commit 91874ecf32e41b5d86a4cb9d60e0bee50d828058 upstream.

It's legal to have 64 groups for netlink_sock.

As user-supplied nladdr-&gt;nl_groups is __u32, it's possible to subscribe
only to first 32 groups.

The check for correctness of .bind() userspace supplied parameter
is done by applying mask made from ngroups shift. Which broke Android
as they have 64 groups and the shift for mask resulted in an overflow.

Fixes: 61f4b23769f0 ("netlink: Don't shift with UB on nlk-&gt;ngroups")
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 91874ecf32e41b5d86a4cb9d60e0bee50d828058 upstream.

It's legal to have 64 groups for netlink_sock.

As user-supplied nladdr-&gt;nl_groups is __u32, it's possible to subscribe
only to first 32 groups.

The check for correctness of .bind() userspace supplied parameter
is done by applying mask made from ngroups shift. Which broke Android
as they have 64 groups and the shift for mask resulted in an overflow.

Fixes: 61f4b23769f0 ("netlink: Don't shift with UB on nlk-&gt;ngroups")
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>netlink: Don't shift with UB on nlk-&gt;ngroups</title>
<updated>2018-08-09T10:17:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-30T17:32:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 61f4b23769f0cc72ae62c9a81cf08f0397d40da8 ]

On i386 nlk-&gt;ngroups might be 32 or 0. Which leads to UB, resulting in
hang during boot.
Check for 0 ngroups and use (unsigned long long) as a type to shift.

Fixes: 7acf9d4237c4 ("netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups").
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 61f4b23769f0cc72ae62c9a81cf08f0397d40da8 ]

On i386 nlk-&gt;ngroups might be 32 or 0. Which leads to UB, resulting in
hang during boot.
Check for 0 ngroups and use (unsigned long long) as a type to shift.

Fixes: 7acf9d4237c4 ("netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups").
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: Do not subscribe to non-existent groups</title>
<updated>2018-08-09T10:17:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-27T15:54:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7acf9d4237c46894e0fa0492dd96314a41742e84 ]

Make ABI more strict about subscribing to group &gt; ngroups.
Code doesn't check for that and it looks bogus.
(one can subscribe to non-existing group)
Still, it's possible to bind() to all possible groups with (-1)

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7acf9d4237c46894e0fa0492dd96314a41742e84 ]

Make ABI more strict about subscribing to group &gt; ngroups.
Code doesn't check for that and it looks bogus.
(one can subscribe to non-existing group)
Still, it's possible to bind() to all possible groups with (-1)

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: Fix spectre v1 gadget in netlink_create()</title>
<updated>2018-08-06T14:23:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Cline</name>
<email>jcline@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-31T21:13:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bc5b6c0b62b932626a135f516a41838c510c6eba ]

'protocol' is a user-controlled value, so sanitize it after the bounds
check to avoid using it for speculative out-of-bounds access to arrays
indexed by it.

This addresses the following accesses detected with the help of smatch:

* net/netlink/af_netlink.c:654 __netlink_create() warn: potential
  spectre issue 'nlk_cb_mutex_keys' [w]

* net/netlink/af_netlink.c:654 __netlink_create() warn: potential
  spectre issue 'nlk_cb_mutex_key_strings' [w]

* net/netlink/af_netlink.c:685 netlink_create() warn: potential spectre
  issue 'nl_table' [w] (local cap)

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline &lt;jcline@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bc5b6c0b62b932626a135f516a41838c510c6eba ]

'protocol' is a user-controlled value, so sanitize it after the bounds
check to avoid using it for speculative out-of-bounds access to arrays
indexed by it.

This addresses the following accesses detected with the help of smatch:

* net/netlink/af_netlink.c:654 __netlink_create() warn: potential
  spectre issue 'nlk_cb_mutex_keys' [w]

* net/netlink/af_netlink.c:654 __netlink_create() warn: potential
  spectre issue 'nlk_cb_mutex_key_strings' [w]

* net/netlink/af_netlink.c:685 netlink_create() warn: potential spectre
  issue 'nl_table' [w] (local cap)

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline &lt;jcline@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: fix uninit-value in netlink_sendmsg</title>
<updated>2018-05-16T08:08:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-07T20:42:37+00:00</published>
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commit 6091f09c2f79730d895149bcfe3d66140288cd0e upstream.

syzbot reported :

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ffs arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:432 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in netlink_sendmsg+0xb26/0x1310 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1851

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6091f09c2f79730d895149bcfe3d66140288cd0e upstream.

syzbot reported :

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ffs arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:432 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in netlink_sendmsg+0xb26/0x1310 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1851

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>netlink: make sure nladdr has correct size in netlink_connect()</title>
<updated>2018-04-13T17:48:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T12:49:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7880287981b60a6808f39f297bb66936e8bdf57a ]

KMSAN reports use of uninitialized memory in the case when |alen| is
smaller than sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl), and therefore |nladdr| isn't
fully copied from the userspace.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41524 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7880287981b60a6808f39f297bb66936e8bdf57a ]

KMSAN reports use of uninitialized memory in the case when |alen| is
smaller than sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl), and therefore |nladdr| isn't
fully copied from the userspace.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f41524 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: put module reference if dump start fails</title>
<updated>2018-03-11T15:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-21T03:41:59+00:00</published>
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commit b87b6194be631c94785fe93398651e804ed43e28 upstream.

Before, if cb-&gt;start() failed, the module reference would never be put,
because cb-&gt;cb_running is intentionally false at this point. Users are
generally annoyed by this because they can no longer unload modules that
leak references. Also, it may be possible to tediously wrap a reference
counter back to zero, especially since module.c still uses atomic_inc
instead of refcount_inc.

This patch expands the error path to simply call module_put if
cb-&gt;start() fails.

Fixes: 41c87425a1ac ("netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b87b6194be631c94785fe93398651e804ed43e28 upstream.

Before, if cb-&gt;start() failed, the module reference would never be put,
because cb-&gt;cb_running is intentionally false at this point. Users are
generally annoyed by this because they can no longer unload modules that
leak references. Also, it may be possible to tediously wrap a reference
counter back to zero, especially since module.c still uses atomic_inc
instead of refcount_inc.

This patch expands the error path to simply call module_put if
cb-&gt;start() fails.

Fixes: 41c87425a1ac ("netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>netlink: Add netns check on taps</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T19:35:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Cernekee</name>
<email>cernekee@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-06T20:12:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 93c647643b48f0131f02e45da3bd367d80443291 ]

Currently, a nlmon link inside a child namespace can observe systemwide
netlink activity.  Filter the traffic so that nlmon can only sniff
netlink messages from its own netns.

Test case:

    vpnns -- bash -c "ip link add nlmon0 type nlmon; \
                      ip link set nlmon0 up; \
                      tcpdump -i nlmon0 -q -w /tmp/nlmon.pcap -U" &amp;
    sudo ip xfrm state add src 10.1.1.1 dst 10.1.1.2 proto esp \
        spi 0x1 mode transport \
        auth sha1 0x6162633132330000000000000000000000000000 \
        enc aes 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    grep --binary abc123 /tmp/nlmon.pcap

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 93c647643b48f0131f02e45da3bd367d80443291 ]

Currently, a nlmon link inside a child namespace can observe systemwide
netlink activity.  Filter the traffic so that nlmon can only sniff
netlink messages from its own netns.

Test case:

    vpnns -- bash -c "ip link add nlmon0 type nlmon; \
                      ip link set nlmon0 up; \
                      tcpdump -i nlmon0 -q -w /tmp/nlmon.pcap -U" &amp;
    sudo ip xfrm state add src 10.1.1.1 dst 10.1.1.2 proto esp \
        spi 0x1 mode transport \
        auth sha1 0x6162633132330000000000000000000000000000 \
        enc aes 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    grep --binary abc123 /tmp/nlmon.pcap

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: deadlock between crypto_alg_sem/rtnl_mutex/genl_mutex</title>
<updated>2017-12-25T13:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-14T10:25:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8a0f5ccfb33b0b8b51de65b7b3bf342ba10b4fb6 ]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:44:10AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
&gt;
&gt; Yes, please.
&gt; Disregarding some reports is not a good way long term.

Please try this patch.

---8&lt;---
Subject: netlink: Annotate nlk cb_mutex by protocol

Currently all occurences of nlk-&gt;cb_mutex are annotated by lockdep
as a single class.  This causes a false lcokdep cycle involving
genl and crypto_user.

This patch fixes it by dividing cb_mutex into individual classes
based on the netlink protocol.  As genl and crypto_user do not
use the same netlink protocol this breaks the false dependency
loop.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8a0f5ccfb33b0b8b51de65b7b3bf342ba10b4fb6 ]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:44:10AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
&gt;
&gt; Yes, please.
&gt; Disregarding some reports is not a good way long term.

Please try this patch.

---8&lt;---
Subject: netlink: Annotate nlk cb_mutex by protocol

Currently all occurences of nlk-&gt;cb_mutex are annotated by lockdep
as a single class.  This causes a false lcokdep cycle involving
genl and crypto_user.

This patch fixes it by dividing cb_mutex into individual classes
based on the netlink protocol.  As genl and crypto_user do not
use the same netlink protocol this breaks the false dependency
loop.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>af_netlink: ensure that NLMSG_DONE never fails in dumps</title>
<updated>2017-11-24T07:33:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-09T04:04:44+00:00</published>
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The way people generally use netlink_dump is that they fill in the skb
as much as possible, breaking when nla_put returns an error. Then, they
get called again and start filling out the next skb, and again, and so
forth. The mechanism at work here is the ability for the iterative
dumping function to detect when the skb is filled up and not fill it
past the brim, waiting for a fresh skb for the rest of the data.

However, if the attributes are small and nicely packed, it is possible
that a dump callback function successfully fills in attributes until the
skb is of size 4080 (libmnl's default page-sized receive buffer size).
The dump function completes, satisfied, and then, if it happens to be
that this is actually the last skb, and no further ones are to be sent,
then netlink_dump will add on the NLMSG_DONE part:

  nlh = nlmsg_put_answer(skb, cb, NLMSG_DONE, sizeof(len), NLM_F_MULTI);

It is very important that netlink_dump does this, of course. However, in
this example, that call to nlmsg_put_answer will fail, because the
previous filling by the dump function did not leave it enough room. And
how could it possibly have done so? All of the nla_put variety of
functions simply check to see if the skb has enough tailroom,
independent of the context it is in.

In order to keep the important assumptions of all netlink dump users, it
is therefore important to give them an skb that has this end part of the
tail already reserved, so that the call to nlmsg_put_answer does not
fail. Otherwise, library authors are forced to find some bizarre sized
receive buffer that has a large modulo relative to the common sizes of
messages received, which is ugly and buggy.

This patch thus saves the NLMSG_DONE for an additional message, for the
case that things are dangerously close to the brim. This requires
keeping track of the errno from -&gt;dump() across calls.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0642840b8bb008528dbdf929cec9f65ac4231ad0 ]

The way people generally use netlink_dump is that they fill in the skb
as much as possible, breaking when nla_put returns an error. Then, they
get called again and start filling out the next skb, and again, and so
forth. The mechanism at work here is the ability for the iterative
dumping function to detect when the skb is filled up and not fill it
past the brim, waiting for a fresh skb for the rest of the data.

However, if the attributes are small and nicely packed, it is possible
that a dump callback function successfully fills in attributes until the
skb is of size 4080 (libmnl's default page-sized receive buffer size).
The dump function completes, satisfied, and then, if it happens to be
that this is actually the last skb, and no further ones are to be sent,
then netlink_dump will add on the NLMSG_DONE part:

  nlh = nlmsg_put_answer(skb, cb, NLMSG_DONE, sizeof(len), NLM_F_MULTI);

It is very important that netlink_dump does this, of course. However, in
this example, that call to nlmsg_put_answer will fail, because the
previous filling by the dump function did not leave it enough room. And
how could it possibly have done so? All of the nla_put variety of
functions simply check to see if the skb has enough tailroom,
independent of the context it is in.

In order to keep the important assumptions of all netlink dump users, it
is therefore important to give them an skb that has this end part of the
tail already reserved, so that the call to nlmsg_put_answer does not
fail. Otherwise, library authors are forced to find some bizarre sized
receive buffer that has a large modulo relative to the common sizes of
messages received, which is ugly and buggy.

This patch thus saves the NLMSG_DONE for an additional message, for the
case that things are dangerously close to the brim. This requires
keeping track of the errno from -&gt;dump() across calls.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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