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    genetlink: fix usage of NLM_F_EXCL or NLM_F_REPLACE · e1ee3673
    Pablo Neira authored
    Currently, it is not possible to use neither NLM_F_EXCL nor
    NLM_F_REPLACE from genetlink. This is due to this checking in
    genl_family_rcv_msg:
    
    	if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP)
    
    NLM_F_DUMP is NLM_F_MATCH|NLM_F_ROOT. Thus, if NLM_F_EXCL or
    NLM_F_REPLACE flag is set, genetlink believes that you're
    requesting a dump and it calls the .dumpit callback.
    
    The solution that I propose is to refine this checking to
    make it stricter:
    
    	if ((nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) == NLM_F_DUMP)
    
    And given the combination NLM_F_REPLACE and NLM_F_EXCL does
    not make sense to me, it removes the ambiguity.
    
    There was a patch that tried to fix this some time ago (0ab03c2b
    
    
    netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite) but it
    tried to resolve this ambiguity in *all* existing netlink subsystems,
    not only genetlink. That patch was reverted since it broke iproute2,
    which is using NLM_F_ROOT to request the dump of the routing cache.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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