net: Improve handling of failures on link and route dumps

In general, rtnetlink dumps do not anticipate failure to dump a single
object (e.g., link or route) on a single pass. As both route and link
objects have grown via more attributes, that is no longer a given.

netlink dumps can handle a failure if the dump function returns an
error; specifically, netlink_dump adds the return code to the response
if it is <= 0 so userspace is notified of the failure. The missing
piece is the rtnetlink dump functions returning the error.

Fix route and link dump functions to return the errors if no object is
added to an skb (detected by skb->len != 0). IPv6 route dumps
(rt6_dump_route) already return the error; this patch updates IPv4 and
link dumps. Other dump functions may need to be ajusted as well.

Reported-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
index 39bd1edee676..83e3ed258467 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ static int inet_dump_fib(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 	unsigned int e = 0, s_e;
 	struct fib_table *tb;
 	struct hlist_head *head;
-	int dumped = 0;
+	int dumped = 0, err;
 
 	if (nlmsg_len(cb->nlh) >= sizeof(struct rtmsg) &&
 	    ((struct rtmsg *) nlmsg_data(cb->nlh))->rtm_flags & RTM_F_CLONED)
@@ -783,20 +783,27 @@ static int inet_dump_fib(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 			if (dumped)
 				memset(&cb->args[2], 0, sizeof(cb->args) -
 						 2 * sizeof(cb->args[0]));
-			if (fib_table_dump(tb, skb, cb) < 0)
-				goto out;
+			err = fib_table_dump(tb, skb, cb);
+			if (err < 0) {
+				if (likely(skb->len))
+					goto out;
+
+				goto out_err;
+			}
 			dumped = 1;
 next:
 			e++;
 		}
 	}
 out:
+	err = skb->len;
+out_err:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	cb->args[1] = e;
 	cb->args[0] = h;
 
-	return skb->len;
+	return err;
 }
 
 /* Prepare and feed intra-kernel routing request.