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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2009-02-05 23:56:36 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-02-05 23:56:36 -0800
commitff491a7334acfd74e515c896632e37e401f52676 (patch)
tree0e3663706a706029d6fc749ef7f66cdd03925231 /drivers
parent612e244c12215f6f74973ea3b89bff96450dc530 (diff)
downloadlinux-ff491a7334acfd74e515c896632e37e401f52676.tar.bz2
netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()
Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no messages at all were delivered: 1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0. 2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone() failure, return -ENOBUFS. 3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH. With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the messages to the listeners have failed: 1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return -ENOBUFS. 2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0. 3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH. In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for conntrackd) in return. This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side if they hit ENOBUFS. BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/event.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c16
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c12
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/uvesafb.c5
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/event.c b/drivers/acpi/event.c
index 0c24bd4d6562..aeb7e5fb4a04 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/event.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/event.c
@@ -235,11 +235,7 @@ int acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(const char *device_class,
return result;
}
- result =
- genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, acpi_event_mcgrp.id, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (result)
- ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO,
- "Failed to send a Genetlink message!\n"));
+ genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, acpi_event_mcgrp.id, GFP_ATOMIC);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
index 5f77417ed585..3ee4eb40abcf 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
@@ -533,12 +533,8 @@ fc_host_post_event(struct Scsi_Host *shost, u32 event_number,
event->event_code = event_code;
event->event_data = event_data;
- err = nlmsg_multicast(scsi_nl_sock, skb, 0, SCSI_NL_GRP_FC_EVENTS,
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (err && (err != -ESRCH)) /* filter no recipient errors */
- /* nlmsg_multicast already kfree_skb'd */
- goto send_fail;
-
+ nlmsg_multicast(scsi_nl_sock, skb, 0, SCSI_NL_GRP_FC_EVENTS,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
return;
send_fail_skb:
@@ -607,12 +603,8 @@ fc_host_post_vendor_event(struct Scsi_Host *shost, u32 event_number,
event->event_code = FCH_EVT_VENDOR_UNIQUE;
memcpy(&event->event_data, data_buf, data_len);
- err = nlmsg_multicast(scsi_nl_sock, skb, 0, SCSI_NL_GRP_FC_EVENTS,
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (err && (err != -ESRCH)) /* filter no recipient errors */
- /* nlmsg_multicast already kfree_skb'd */
- goto send_vendor_fail;
-
+ nlmsg_multicast(scsi_nl_sock, skb, 0, SCSI_NL_GRP_FC_EVENTS,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
return;
send_vendor_fail_skb:
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
index 75c9297694cb..2adfab8c11c1 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
@@ -966,15 +966,7 @@ iscsi_if_transport_lookup(struct iscsi_transport *tt)
static int
iscsi_broadcast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp)
{
- int rc;
-
- rc = netlink_broadcast(nls, skb, 0, 1, gfp);
- if (rc < 0) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "iscsi: can not broadcast skb (%d)\n", rc);
- return rc;
- }
-
- return 0;
+ return netlink_broadcast(nls, skb, 0, 1, gfp);
}
static int
@@ -1207,7 +1199,7 @@ int iscsi_session_event(struct iscsi_cls_session *session,
* the user and when the daemon is restarted it will handle it
*/
rc = iscsi_broadcast_skb(skb, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (rc < 0)
+ if (rc == -ESRCH)
iscsi_cls_session_printk(KERN_ERR, session,
"Cannot notify userspace of session "
"event %u. Check iscsi daemon\n",
diff --git a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
index 6c2d37fdd3b9..74ae75899009 100644
--- a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
@@ -204,8 +204,11 @@ static int uvesafb_exec(struct uvesafb_ktask *task)
} else {
v86d_started = 1;
err = cn_netlink_send(m, 0, gfp_any());
+ if (err == -ENOBUFS)
+ err = 0;
}
- }
+ } else if (err == -ENOBUFS)
+ err = 0;
if (!err && !(task->t.flags & TF_EXIT))
err = !wait_for_completion_timeout(task->done,