in6_dump_addrs() returns a positive 1 if there was nothing to dump. This return value can not be passed as return from inet6_dump_addr() as is, because it will confuse rtnetlink, resulting in NLMSG_DONE never getting set:
$ ip addr list dev lo EOF on netlink Dump terminated v2: flip condition to avoid a new goto (DaveA) Fixes: 7c1e8a3817c5 ("netlink: fixup regression in RTM_GETADDR") Reported-by: Brendan Galloway <brendan.gallo...@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> --- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 57198b3c86da..015e5ccbe306 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -5155,6 +5155,8 @@ static int inet6_dump_addr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb, if (idev) { err = in6_dump_addrs(idev, skb, cb, s_ip_idx, &fillargs); + if (err > 0) + err = 0; } goto put_tgt_net; } -- 2.19.2