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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	pablo@netfilter.org, Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] netfilter: conntrack: helper: Replace -EEXIST by -EBUSY
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:39:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250827133900.16552-3-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250827133900.16552-1-fw@strlen.de>

From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

The helper registration return value is passed-through by module_init
callbacks which modprobe confuses with the harmless -EEXIST returned
when trying to load an already loaded module.

Make sure modprobe fails so users notice their helper has not been
registered and won't work.

Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Fixes: 12f7a505331e ("netfilter: add user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
index 4ed5878cb25b..ceb48c3ca0a4 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_helper_register(struct nf_conntrack_helper *me)
 			    (cur->tuple.src.l3num == NFPROTO_UNSPEC ||
 			     cur->tuple.src.l3num == me->tuple.src.l3num) &&
 			    cur->tuple.dst.protonum == me->tuple.dst.protonum) {
-				ret = -EEXIST;
+				ret = -EBUSY;
 				goto out;
 			}
 		}
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ int nf_conntrack_helper_register(struct nf_conntrack_helper *me)
 		hlist_for_each_entry(cur, &nf_ct_helper_hash[h], hnode) {
 			if (nf_ct_tuple_src_mask_cmp(&cur->tuple, &me->tuple,
 						     &mask)) {
-				ret = -EEXIST;
+				ret = -EBUSY;
 				goto out;
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.49.1


      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-27 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-27 13:38 [PATCH net 0/2] netfilter updates for net Florian Westphal
2025-08-27 13:38 ` [PATCH net 1/2] netfilter: br_netfilter: do not check confirmed bit in br_nf_local_in() after confirm Florian Westphal
2025-08-30  2:10   ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2025-08-27 13:39 ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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