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-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c29
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 448703312fed..37c7936124e6 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3748,16 +3748,27 @@ static int rtnl_fdb_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
int err = 0;
int fidx = 0;
- err = nlmsg_parse(cb->nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), tb,
- IFLA_MAX, ifla_policy, NULL);
- if (err < 0) {
- return -EINVAL;
- } else if (err == 0) {
- if (tb[IFLA_MASTER])
- br_idx = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_MASTER]);
- }
+ /* A hack to preserve kernel<->userspace interface.
+ * Before Linux v4.12 this code accepted ndmsg since iproute2 v3.3.0.
+ * However, ndmsg is shorter than ifinfomsg thus nlmsg_parse() bails.
+ * So, check for ndmsg with an optional u32 attribute (not used here).
+ * Fortunately these sizes don't conflict with the size of ifinfomsg
+ * with an optional attribute.
+ */
+ if (nlmsg_len(cb->nlh) != sizeof(struct ndmsg) &&
+ (nlmsg_len(cb->nlh) != sizeof(struct ndmsg) +
+ nla_attr_size(sizeof(u32)))) {
+ err = nlmsg_parse(cb->nlh, sizeof(struct ifinfomsg), tb,
+ IFLA_MAX, ifla_policy, NULL);
+ if (err < 0) {
+ return -EINVAL;
+ } else if (err == 0) {
+ if (tb[IFLA_MASTER])
+ br_idx = nla_get_u32(tb[IFLA_MASTER]);
+ }
- brport_idx = ifm->ifi_index;
+ brport_idx = ifm->ifi_index;
+ }
if (br_idx) {
br_dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, br_idx);