Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] genetlink: fit NLMSG_DONE into same read() as families

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 21:24:08 -0800

Make sure ctrl_fill_info() returns sensible error codes and
propagate them out to netlink core. Let netlink core decide
when to return skb->len and when to treat the exit as an
error. Netlink core does better job at it, if we always
return skb->len the core doesn't know when we're done
dumping and NLMSG_DONE ends up in a separate read().

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
---
CC: [email-masked]
---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 50ec599a5cff..3b7666944b11 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ static int ctrl_fill_info(const struct genl_family *family, u32 portid, u32 seq,
 
 	hdr = genlmsg_put(skb, portid, seq, &genl_ctrl, flags, cmd);
 	if (hdr == NULL)
-		return -1;
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	if (nla_put_string(skb, CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME, family->name) ||
 	    nla_put_u16(skb, CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_ID, family->id) ||
@@ -1355,6 +1355,7 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 	struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
 	int fams_to_skip = cb->args[0];
 	unsigned int id;
+	int err = 0;
 
 	idr_for_each_entry(&genl_fam_idr, rt, id) {
 		if (!rt->netnsok && !net_eq(net, &init_net))
@@ -1363,16 +1364,17 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 		if (n++ < fams_to_skip)
 			continue;
 
-		if (ctrl_fill_info(rt, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
-				   cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLM_F_MULTI,
-				   skb, CTRL_CMD_NEWFAMILY) < 0) {
+		err = ctrl_fill_info(rt, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
+				     cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLM_F_MULTI,
+				     skb, CTRL_CMD_NEWFAMILY);
+		if (err) {
 			n--;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
 
 	cb->args[0] = n;
-	return skb->len;
+	return err;
 }
 
 static struct sk_buff *ctrl_build_family_msg(const struct genl_family *family,
-- 
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