net/ipv4: return the real errno instead of -EINVAL
authorxu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Mon, 7 Aug 2023 01:54:08 +0000 (01:54 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 23 Sep 2023 09:11:02 +0000 (11:11 +0200)
commite5d94c98a72f5f8047facb290d3af748fe86b461
tree28d36df9ba4bddded6a6571cbbe7372fb33941f0
parentd5372a1f0cdf0db2be937f56dab7acde98b28136
net/ipv4: return the real errno instead of -EINVAL

[ Upstream commit c67180efc507e04a87f22aa68bd7dd832db006b7 ]

For now, No matter what error pointer ip_neigh_for_gw() returns,
ip_finish_output2() always return -EINVAL, which may mislead the upper
users.

For exemple, an application uses sendto to send an UDP packet, but when the
neighbor table overflows, sendto() will get a value of -EINVAL, and it will
cause users to waste a lot of time checking parameters for errors.

Return the real errno instead of -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Si Hao <si.hao@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230807015408.248237-1-xu.xin16@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/ipv4/ip_output.c