netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket option

Since commit c05cdb1 ("netlink: allow large data transfers from
user-space"), the kernel may fail to allocate the necessary room for the
acknowledgment message back to userspace. This patch introduces a new
socket option that trims off the payload of the original netlink message.

The netlink message header is still included, so the user can guess from
the sequence number what is the message that has triggered the
acknowledgment.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Ricard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Author: cricard13

include/uapi/linux/netlink.h

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ struct nlmsgerr {
 #define NETLINK_TX_RING			7
 #define NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID		8
 #define NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS	9
+#define NETLINK_CAP_ACK			10
 
 struct nl_pktinfo {
 	__u32	group;

net/netlink/af_netlink.c

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ struct listeners {
 #define NETLINK_F_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR	0x4
 #define NETLINK_F_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS	0x8
 #define NETLINK_F_LISTEN_ALL_NSID	0x10
+#define NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK		0x20
 
 static inline int netlink_is_kernel(struct sock *sk)
 {
@@ -2258,6 +2259,13 @@ static int netlink_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 			nlk->flags &= ~NETLINK_F_LISTEN_ALL_NSID;
 		err = 0;
 		break;
+	case NETLINK_CAP_ACK:
+		if (val)
+			nlk->flags |= NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK;
+		else
+			nlk->flags &= ~NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK;
+		err = 0;
+		break;
 	default:
 		err = -ENOPROTOOPT;
 	}
@@ -2332,6 +2340,16 @@ static int netlink_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 		netlink_table_ungrab();
 		break;
 	}
+	case NETLINK_CAP_ACK:
+		if (len < sizeof(int))
+			return -EINVAL;
+		len = sizeof(int);
+		val = nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK ? 1 : 0;
+		if (put_user(len, optlen) ||
+		    put_user(val, optval))
+			return -EFAULT;
+		err = 0;
+		break;
 	default:
 		err = -ENOPROTOOPT;
 	}
@@ -2873,9 +2891,12 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
 	struct nlmsghdr *rep;
 	struct nlmsgerr *errmsg;
 	size_t payload = sizeof(*errmsg);
+	struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(NETLINK_CB(in_skb).sk);
 
-	/* error messages get the original request appened */
-	if (err)
+	/* Error messages get the original request appened, unless the user
+	 * requests to cap the error message.
+	 */
+	if (!(nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK) && err)
 		payload += nlmsg_len(nlh);
 
 	skb = netlink_alloc_skb(in_skb->sk, nlmsg_total_size(payload),
@@ -2898,7 +2919,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
 			  NLMSG_ERROR, payload, 0);
 	errmsg = nlmsg_data(rep);
 	errmsg->error = err;
-	memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, err ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
+	memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, payload > sizeof(*errmsg) ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
 	netlink_unicast(in_skb->sk, skb, NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid, MSG_DONTWAIT);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_ack);