Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtnetlink: Only supply IFLA_VF_PORTS information when RTEXT_FILTER_VF is set

Jiri Pirko
2014-04-24T15:51:09Z

Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 02:22:36AM CEST, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au wrote:
>Since 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a (rtnetlink: Fix problem with
>buffer allocation), RTM_NEWLINK messages only contain the IFLA_VFINFO_LIST
>attribute if they were solicited by a GETLINK message containing an
>IFLA_EXT_MASK attribute with the RTEXT_FILTER_VF flag.
>
>That was done because some user programs broke when they received more data
>than expected - because IFLA_VFINFO_LIST contains information for each VF
>it can become large if there are many VFs.
>
>However, the IFLA_VF_PORTS attribute, supplied for devices which implement
>ndo_get_vf_port (currently the 'enic' driver only), has the same problem.
>It supplies per-VF information and can therefore become large, but it is
>not currently conditional on the IFLA_EXT_MASK value.
>
>Worse, it interacts badly with the existing EXT_MASK handling. When
>IFLA_EXT_MASK is not supplied, the buffer for netlink replies is fixed at
>NLMSG_GOODSIZE. If the information for IFLA_VF_PORTS exceeds this, then
>rtnl_fill_ifinfo() returns -EMSGSIZE on the first message in a packet.
>netlink_dump() will misinterpret this as having finished the listing and
>omit data for this interface and all subsequent ones. That can cause
>getifaddrs(3) to enter an infinite loop.
>
>This patch addresses the problem by only supplying IFLA_VF_PORTS when
>IFLA_EXT_MASK is supplied with the RTEXT_FILTER_VF flag set.
>
>Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>

This should go to -net I believe.