[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 24/34] Revert "net: af_key: add check for pfkey_broadcast in function pfkey_process"

Sasha Levin
2022-06-07T19:42:38Z

From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>

[ Upstream commit 9c90c9b3e50e16d03c7f87d63e9db373974781e0 ]

This reverts commit 4dc2a5a8f6754492180741facf2a8787f2c415d7.

A non-zero return value from pfkey_broadcast() does not necessarily mean
an error occurred as this function returns -ESRCH when no registered
listener received the message. In particular, a call with
BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY flag and null one_sk argument can never return
zero so that this commit in fact prevents processing any PF_KEY message.
One visible effect is that racoon daemon fails to find encryption
algorithms like aes and refuses to start.

Excluding -ESRCH return value would fix this but it's not obvious that
we really want to bail out here and most other callers of
pfkey_broadcast() also ignore the return value. Also, as pointed out by
Steffen Klassert, PF_KEY is kind of deprecated and newer userspace code
should use netlink instead so that we should only disturb the code for
really important fixes.

v2: add a comment explaining why is the return value ignored

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/key/af_key.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c
index dd064d5eff6e..32fe99cd01fc 100644
--- a/net/key/af_key.c
+++ b/net/key/af_key.c
@@ -2830,10 +2830,12 @@ static int pfkey_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, const struct sadb
void *ext_hdrs[SADB_EXT_MAX];
int err;

- err = pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL,
- BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk));
- if (err)
- return err;
+ /* Non-zero return value of pfkey_broadcast() does not always signal
+ * an error and even on an actual error we may still want to process
+ * the message so rather ignore the return value.
+ */
+ pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL,
+ BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk));

memset(ext_hdrs, 0, sizeof(ext_hdrs));
err = parse_exthdrs(skb, hdr, ext_hdrs);
--
2.35.1