[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.4 16/41] net/ipv4: return the real errno instead of -EINVAL

Sasha Levin
2023-09-08T18:19:46Z

From: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>

[ Upstream commit c67180efc507e04a87f22aa68bd7dd832db006b7 ]

For now, No matter what error pointer ip_neigh_for_gw() returns,
ip_finish_output2() always return -EINVAL, which may mislead the upper
users.

For exemple, an application uses sendto to send an UDP packet, but when the
neighbor table overflows, sendto() will get a value of -EINVAL, and it will
cause users to waste a lot of time checking parameters for errors.

Return the real errno instead of -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Si Hao <si.hao@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807015408.248237-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 6f6f63cf9224f..f649a65bfefa7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static int ip_finish_output2(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *s
net_dbg_ratelimited("%s: No header cache and no neighbour!\n",
__func__);
kfree_skb_reason(skb, SKB_DROP_REASON_NEIGH_CREATEFAIL);
- return -EINVAL;
+ return PTR_ERR(neigh);
}

static int ip_finish_output_gso(struct net *net, struct sock *sk,
--
2.40.1