tree 0fa0b3c39ff3c1f3aca7b1013a1932f18ca2021d
parent 406a1d868001423c85a3165288e566e65f424fe6
author Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1201582332 -0800
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1201836428 -0800

[INET_DIAG]: Fix inet_diag_lock_handler error path.

Fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9825

The inet_diag_lock_handler function uses ERR_PTR to encode errors but
its callers were testing against NULL.

This only happens when the only inet_diag modular user, DCCP, is not
built into the kernel or available as a module.

Also there was a problem with not dropping the mutex lock when a handler
was not found, also fixed in this patch.

This caused an OOPS and ss would then hang on subsequent calls, as
&inet_diag_table_mutex was being left locked.

Thanks to spike at ml.yaroslavl.ru for report it after trying 'ss -d'
on a kernel that doesn't have DCCP available.

This bug was introduced in cset
d523a328fb0271e1a763e985a21f2488fd816e7e ("Fix inet_diag dead-lock
regression"), after 2.6.24-rc3, so just 2.6.24 seems to be affected.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>