From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:58014 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751268AbbJRAMj (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:12:39 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6AF20339 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:12:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:12:37 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Roland Dreier Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Roland Dreier Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.19 and earlier] fib_rules: Fix dump_rules() not to exit early Message-ID: <20151018001237.GD18971@kroah.com> References: <1444066168-5566-1-git-send-email-roland@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1444066168-5566-1-git-send-email-roland@kernel.org> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:29:28AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > From: Roland Dreier > > Backports of 41fc014332d9 ("fib_rules: fix fib rule dumps across > multiple skbs") introduced a regression in "ip rule show" - it ends up > dumping the first rule over and over and never exiting, because 3.19 > and earlier are missing commit 053c095a82cf ("netlink: make > nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void"), so fib_nl_fill_rule() ends up > returning skb->len (i.e. > 0) in the success case. > > Fix this by checking the return code for < 0 instead of != 0. > > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier > --- > Hi, this is needed for all stable trees earlier than 4.0 that have > picked up 41fc014332d9; so far looks like at least 3.10.y and 3.14.y > have made such releases. Thanks for this, now applied to 3.10 and 3.14-stable trees. greg k-h