From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:20:25 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: netfilter: nfnetlink: don't probe module if it exists
X-Git-Tag: v4.4-rc1~45^2~44^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dbc3617f4c1f9fcbe63612048cb9583fea1e11ab;p=karo-tx-linux.git

netfilter: nfnetlink: don't probe module if it exists

nfnetlink_bind request_module()s all the time as nfnetlink_get_subsys()
shifts the argument by 8 to obtain the subsys id.

So using type instead of type << 8 always returns NULL.

Fixes: 03292745b02d11 ("netlink: add nlk->netlink_bind hook for module auto-loading")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
index 70277b11f742..27b93daee61f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ static int nfnetlink_bind(struct net *net, int group)
 	type = nfnl_group2type[group];
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type);
+	ss = nfnetlink_get_subsys(type << 8);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	if (!ss)
 		request_module("nfnetlink-subsys-%d", type);