Commit 6cc2db3c authored by Michal Kubecek's avatar Michal Kubecek Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
Browse files

UPSTREAM: Revert "net: af_key: add check for pfkey_broadcast in function pfkey_process"



This reverts commit 4dc2a5a8.

A non-zero return value from pfkey_broadcast() does not necessarily mean
an error occurred as this function returns -ESRCH when no registered
listener received the message. In particular, a call with
BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY flag and null one_sk argument can never return
zero so that this commit in fact prevents processing any PF_KEY message.
One visible effect is that racoon daemon fails to find encryption
algorithms like aes and refuses to start.

Excluding -ESRCH return value would fix this but it's not obvious that
we really want to bail out here and most other callers of
pfkey_broadcast() also ignore the return value. Also, as pointed out by
Steffen Klassert, PF_KEY is kind of deprecated and newer userspace code
should use netlink instead so that we should only disturb the code for
really important fixes.

v2: add a comment explaining why is the return value ignored

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
(cherry picked from commit 9c90c9b3)
Reported-by: default avatarCarlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: Ia2df29e35828d87edfc45fa3fe359e0a5a0fcb71
parent 05982f0c
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please to comment