6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: xu xin xu.xin16@zte.com.cn
[ Upstream commit c67180efc507e04a87f22aa68bd7dd832db006b7 ]
For now, No matter what error pointer ip_neigh_for_gw() returns, ip_finish_output2() always return -EINVAL, which may mislead the upper users.
For exemple, an application uses sendto to send an UDP packet, but when the neighbor table overflows, sendto() will get a value of -EINVAL, and it will cause users to waste a lot of time checking parameters for errors.
Return the real errno instead of -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: xu xin xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Reviewed-by: Yang Yang yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Cc: Si Hao si.hao@zte.com.cn Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807015408.248237-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c index ebd2cea5b7d7a..66908ce2dd116 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static int ip_finish_output2(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *s net_dbg_ratelimited("%s: No header cache and no neighbour!\n", __func__); kfree_skb_reason(skb, SKB_DROP_REASON_NEIGH_CREATEFAIL); - return -EINVAL; + return PTR_ERR(neigh); }
static int ip_finish_output_gso(struct net *net, struct sock *sk,