Patch "net: sched: report if filter is too large to dump" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: sched: report if filter is too large to dump

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-sched-report-if-filter-is-too-large-to-dump.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Mar  6 19:02:12 PST 2018
From: Roman Kapl <code@rkapl.cz>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:32:51 +0100
Subject: net: sched: report if filter is too large to dump

From: Roman Kapl <code@rkapl.cz>


[ Upstream commit 5ae437ad5a2ed573b1ebb04e0afa70b8869f88dd ]

So far, if the filter was too large to fit in the allocated skb, the
kernel did not return any error and stopped dumping. Modify the dumper
so that it returns -EMSGSIZE when a filter fails to dump and it is the
first filter in the skb. If we are not first, we will get a next chance
with more room.

I understand this is pretty near to being an API change, but the
original design (silent truncation) can be considered a bug.

Note: The error case can happen pretty easily if you create a filter
with 32 actions and have 4kb pages. Also recent versions of iproute try
to be clever with their buffer allocation size, which in turn leads to

Signed-off-by: Roman Kapl <code@rkapl.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sched/cls_api.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -871,13 +871,18 @@ static int tc_dump_tfilter(struct sk_buf
 		if (tca[TCA_CHAIN] &&
 		    nla_get_u32(tca[TCA_CHAIN]) != chain->index)
 			continue;
-		if (!tcf_chain_dump(chain, skb, cb, index_start, &index))
+		if (!tcf_chain_dump(chain, skb, cb, index_start, &index)) {
+			err = -EMSGSIZE;
 			break;
+		}
 	}
 
 	cb->args[0] = index;
 
 out:
+	/* If we did no progress, the error (EMSGSIZE) is real */
+	if (skb->len == 0 && err)
+		return err;
 	return skb->len;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from code@rkapl.cz are

queue-4.14/net-sched-report-if-filter-is-too-large-to-dump.patch