Re: [PATCH 1/5] secmark: do not return early if there was no error

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 18:52:14 EST


On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:40 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> Commit 4a5a5c73 attempted to pass decent error messages back to userspace for
> netfilter errors. In xt_SECMARK.c however the patch screwed up and returned
> on 0 (aka no error) early and didn't finish setting up secmark. This results
> in a kernel BUG if you use SECMARK.

...

> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@xxxxxx>

> ---
>
> net/netfilter/xt_SECMARK.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_SECMARK.c b/net/netfilter/xt_SECMARK.c
> index 23b2d6c..364ad16 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/xt_SECMARK.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_SECMARK.c
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static int secmark_tg_check(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par)
> switch (info->mode) {
> case SECMARK_MODE_SEL:
> err = checkentry_selinux(info);
> - if (err <= 0)
> + if (err)
> return err;
> break;
>
>

--
paul moore
linux @ hp


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