netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option
This patch adds NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR which is a netlink
socket option that the listener can set to make netlink_broadcast()
return errors in the delivery to the caller. This option is useful
if the caller of netlink_broadcast() do something with the result
of the message delivery, like in ctnetlink where it drops a network
packet if the event delivery failed, this is used to enable reliable
logging and state-synchronization. If this socket option is not set,
netlink_broadcast() only reports ESRCH errors and silently ignore
ENOBUFS errors, which is what most netlink_broadcast() callers
should do.
This socket option is based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.
Patrick McHardy can exchange this patch for a beer from me ;).
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 6ee69c2..ed587be 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
#define NETLINK_KERNEL_SOCKET 0x1
#define NETLINK_RECV_PKTINFO 0x2
+#define NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR 0x4
static inline struct netlink_sock *nlk_sk(struct sock *sk)
{
@@ -995,12 +996,15 @@
netlink_overrun(sk);
/* Clone failed. Notify ALL listeners. */
p->failure = 1;
+ if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR)
+ p->delivery_failure = 1;
} else if (sk_filter(sk, p->skb2)) {
kfree_skb(p->skb2);
p->skb2 = NULL;
} else if ((val = netlink_broadcast_deliver(sk, p->skb2)) < 0) {
netlink_overrun(sk);
- p->delivery_failure = 1;
+ if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR)
+ p->delivery_failure = 1;
} else {
p->congested |= val;
p->delivered = 1;
@@ -1048,7 +1052,7 @@
if (info.skb2)
kfree_skb(info.skb2);
- if (info.delivery_failure || info.failure)
+ if (info.delivery_failure)
return -ENOBUFS;
if (info.delivered) {
@@ -1163,6 +1167,13 @@
err = 0;
break;
}
+ case NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR:
+ if (val)
+ nlk->flags |= NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR;
+ else
+ nlk->flags &= ~NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR;
+ err = 0;
+ break;
default:
err = -ENOPROTOOPT;
}
@@ -1195,6 +1206,16 @@
return -EFAULT;
err = 0;
break;
+ case NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR:
+ if (len < sizeof(int))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ len = sizeof(int);
+ val = nlk->flags & NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR ? 1 : 0;
+ if (put_user(len, optlen) ||
+ put_user(val, optval))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ err = 0;
+ break;
default:
err = -ENOPROTOOPT;
}