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kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle message

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Milan Broz Aug. 22, 2011, 1:51 p.m. UTC
kobject_uevent() uses a multicast socket and should ignore
if one of listeners cannot handle messages or nobody is
listening at all.

Easily reproducible when a process in system is cloned
with CLONE_NEWNET flag.

(See also http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5256)

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
---
 lib/kobject_uevent.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Kay Sievers Aug. 22, 2011, 4:24 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 15:51, Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> wrote:
> kobject_uevent() uses a multicast socket and should ignore
> if one of listeners cannot handle messages or nobody is
> listening at all.
>
> Easily reproducible when a process in system is cloned
> with CLONE_NEWNET flag.

> -                       if (retval == -ENOBUFS)
> +                       if (retval == -ENOBUFS || retval == -ESRCH)

Looks good to me.

Kay

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Eric W. Biederman Aug. 22, 2011, 7:49 p.m. UTC | #2
Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> writes:

> kobject_uevent() uses a multicast socket and should ignore
> if one of listeners cannot handle messages or nobody is
> listening at all.
>
> Easily reproducible when a process in system is cloned
> with CLONE_NEWNET flag.
>
> (See also
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5256)

I am fine with the patch below.

However if you are fine with the patch below let's just remove the
return code from code from kobject_uevent_env.  We are now explicitly
ignoring all of the possible return codes from
netlink_broadcast_filtered.  

Ignoring all of the return codes from netlink_broadcast_filtered ignores
all of the expected errors from kobject_uevent_env, short of programmer
error.

So why have an error code on kobject_uevent_env?

> Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/kobject_uevent.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> index 70af0a7..ad72a03 100644
> --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
>  							    kobj_bcast_filter,
>  							    kobj);
>  			/* ENOBUFS should be handled in userspace */
> -			if (retval == -ENOBUFS)
> +			if (retval == -ENOBUFS || retval == -ESRCH)
>  				retval = 0;
>  		} else
>  			retval = -ENOMEM;

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Milan Broz Aug. 22, 2011, 8:05 p.m. UTC | #3
On 08/22/2011 09:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> kobject_uevent() uses a multicast socket and should ignore
>> if one of listeners cannot handle messages or nobody is
>> listening at all.
>>
>> Easily reproducible when a process in system is cloned
>> with CLONE_NEWNET flag.
>>
>> (See also
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5256)
> 
> I am fine with the patch below.
> 
> However if you are fine with the patch below let's just remove the
> return code from code from kobject_uevent_env.  We are now explicitly
> ignoring all of the possible return codes from
> netlink_broadcast_filtered.  

Until someone adds a new errno there, I think ESRCH appeared there
the same way:-)

I think the code is better readable now. Whatever, I do not care,
patch is intended to be minimalistic (perhaps for stable series as well now).

Thanks,
Milan

> 
> Ignoring all of the return codes from netlink_broadcast_filtered ignores
> all of the expected errors from kobject_uevent_env, short of programmer
> error.
> 
> So why have an error code on kobject_uevent_env?
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  lib/kobject_uevent.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
>> index 70af0a7..ad72a03 100644
>> --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
>> +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
>> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
>>  							    kobj_bcast_filter,
>>  							    kobj);
>>  			/* ENOBUFS should be handled in userspace */
>> -			if (retval == -ENOBUFS)
>> +			if (retval == -ENOBUFS || retval == -ESRCH)
>>  				retval = 0;
>>  		} else
>>  			retval = -ENOMEM;

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Patch

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 70af0a7..ad72a03 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@  int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
 							    kobj_bcast_filter,
 							    kobj);
 			/* ENOBUFS should be handled in userspace */
-			if (retval == -ENOBUFS)
+			if (retval == -ENOBUFS || retval == -ESRCH)
 				retval = 0;
 		} else
 			retval = -ENOMEM;