David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:39:25 +0200
> 
> > 3. change meaning of ->done() so its always called once ->start()
> >    was invoked (and returned 0), this requires audit of all
> >    places that provide .done to make sure they won't trip.
> > 
> > 3) seems to be what Tom intended when he added .start, so probably
> > best to investigate that first.
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> Any time ->start() succeeds, we set cb_running to true.

Right.

> From that point forward, ->done() will be called at some point at all
> of the locations that check if cb_running is true and set it to false.

Also right, thanks for pointing this out, I missed fact that netlink
core restarts a dump after this.

So 3) is already true which means we should try to see if we can move
all dump-related extra magic into ->start().

Shaochun, can you see if this is possible?

Something along these lines (totally untested), which makes this
a netfilter fix:

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -5010,6 +5013,22 @@ nft_obj_filter_alloc(const struct nlattr * const nla[])
        return filter;
 }
 
+static int nf_tables_dump_obj_start(struct netlink_callback *cb)
+{
+       const struct nlattr * const *nla = cb->data;
+       struct nft_obj_filter *filter = NULL;
+
+       if (nla[NFTA_OBJ_TABLE] ||
+           nla[NFTA_OBJ_TYPE]) {
+               filter = nft_obj_filter_alloc(nla);
+               if (IS_ERR(filter))
+                       return -ENOMEM;
+       }
+
+       cb->data = filter;
+       return 0;
+}
+
 /* called with rcu_read_lock held */
 static int nf_tables_getobj(struct net *net, struct sock *nlsk,
                            struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
@@ -5028,21 +5047,13 @@ static int nf_tables_getobj(struct net *net, struct 
sock *nlsk,
 
        if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) {
                struct netlink_dump_control c = {
+                       .start = nf_tables_dump_obj_start,
                        .dump = nf_tables_dump_obj,
                        .done = nf_tables_dump_obj_done,
                        .module = THIS_MODULE,
+                       .data = (void *)nla,
                };
 
-               if (nla[NFTA_OBJ_TABLE] ||
-                   nla[NFTA_OBJ_TYPE]) {
-                       struct nft_obj_filter *filter;
-
-                       filter = nft_obj_filter_alloc(nla);
-                       if (IS_ERR(filter))
-                               return -ENOMEM;
-
-                       c.data = filter;
-               }
                return nft_netlink_dump_start_rcu(nlsk, skb, nlh, &c);
        }
 
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