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| author | Michal Kubecek | 2022-05-23 22:05:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Steffen Klassert | 2022-05-25 11:40:05 +0200 |
| commit | 9c90c9b3e50e16d03c7f87d63e9db373974781e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 231bd35b2a94827bb80fb27dc77a294b64353207 /net/key/af_key.c | |
| parent | 8c3b8dc5cc9bf6d273ebe18b16e2d6882bcfb36d (diff) | |
Revert "net: af_key: add check for pfkey_broadcast in function pfkey_process"
This reverts commit 4dc2a5a8f6754492180741facf2a8787f2c415d7.
A non-zero return value from pfkey_broadcast() does not necessarily mean
an error occurred as this function returns -ESRCH when no registered
listener received the message. In particular, a call with
BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY flag and null one_sk argument can never return
zero so that this commit in fact prevents processing any PF_KEY message.
One visible effect is that racoon daemon fails to find encryption
algorithms like aes and refuses to start.
Excluding -ESRCH return value would fix this but it's not obvious that
we really want to bail out here and most other callers of
pfkey_broadcast() also ignore the return value. Also, as pointed out by
Steffen Klassert, PF_KEY is kind of deprecated and newer userspace code
should use netlink instead so that we should only disturb the code for
really important fixes.
v2: add a comment explaining why is the return value ignored
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/key/af_key.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/key/af_key.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c index 339d95df19d3..d93bde657359 100644 --- a/net/key/af_key.c +++ b/net/key/af_key.c @@ -2826,10 +2826,12 @@ static int pfkey_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, const struct sadb void *ext_hdrs[SADB_EXT_MAX]; int err; - err = pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL, - BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk)); - if (err) - return err; + /* Non-zero return value of pfkey_broadcast() does not always signal + * an error and even on an actual error we may still want to process + * the message so rather ignore the return value. + */ + pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL, + BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk)); memset(ext_hdrs, 0, sizeof(ext_hdrs)); err = parse_exthdrs(skb, hdr, ext_hdrs); |