[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 108/126] netfilter: nfnetlink: don't probe module if it exists

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Wed Dec 09 2015 - 04:41:55 EST


3.16.7-ckt21 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>

commit dbc3617f4c1f9fcbe63612048cb9583fea1e11ab upstream.

nfnetlink_bind request_module()s all the time as nfnetlink_get_subsys()
shifts the argument by 8 to obtain the subsys id.

So using type instead of type << 8 always returns NULL.

Fixes: 03292745b02d11 ("netlink: add nlk->netlink_bind hook for module auto-loading")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
index 6ae88ace21cb..cddab2101569 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static int nfnetlink_bind(int group)
int type = nfnl_group2type[group];

rcu_read_lock();
- ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type);
+ ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type << 8);
rcu_read_unlock();
if (!ss)
request_module("nfnetlink-subsys-%d", type);
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