Patch "netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()

to the 4.9-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:
     netlink-ensure-to-loop-over-all-netns-in-genlmsg_multicast_allns.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Thu Mar  8 06:55:02 PST 2018
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:48:32 +0100
Subject: netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>


[ Upstream commit cb9f7a9a5c96a773bbc9c70660dc600cfff82f82 ]

Nowadays, nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH but this was not the
case when commit 134e63756d5f was pushed.
However, there was no reason to stop the loop if a netns does not have
listeners.
Returns -ESRCH only if there was no listeners in all netns.

To avoid having the same problem in the future, I didn't take the
assumption that nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH.

Fixes: 134e63756d5f ("genetlink: make netns aware")
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -1103,6 +1103,7 @@ static int genlmsg_mcast(struct sk_buff
 {
 	struct sk_buff *tmp;
 	struct net *net, *prev = NULL;
+	bool delivered = false;
 	int err;
 
 	for_each_net_rcu(net) {
@@ -1114,14 +1115,21 @@ static int genlmsg_mcast(struct sk_buff
 			}
 			err = nlmsg_multicast(prev->genl_sock, tmp,
 					      portid, group, flags);
-			if (err)
+			if (!err)
+				delivered = true;
+			else if (err != -ESRCH)
 				goto error;
 		}
 
 		prev = net;
 	}
 
-	return nlmsg_multicast(prev->genl_sock, skb, portid, group, flags);
+	err = nlmsg_multicast(prev->genl_sock, skb, portid, group, flags);
+	if (!err)
+		delivered = true;
+	else if (err != -ESRCH)
+		goto error;
+	return delivered ? 0 : -ESRCH;
  error:
 	kfree_skb(skb);
 	return err;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com are

queue-4.9/netlink-ensure-to-loop-over-all-netns-in-genlmsg_multicast_allns.patch