This reverts commit e9919a24d3022f72bcadc407e73a6ef17093a849. Nathan reported the new behaviour breaks Android, as Android just add new rules and delete old ones.
If we return 0 without adding dup rules, Android will remove the new added rules and causing system to soft-reboot. Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com> Fixes: e9919a24d302 ("fib_rules: return 0 directly if an exactly same rule exists when NLM_F_EXCL not supplied") Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com> --- net/core/fib_rules.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/fib_rules.c b/net/core/fib_rules.c index 43f0115cce9c..18f8dd8329ed 100644 --- a/net/core/fib_rules.c +++ b/net/core/fib_rules.c @@ -757,9 +757,9 @@ int fib_nl_newrule(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, if (err) goto errout; - if (rule_exists(ops, frh, tb, rule)) { - if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_EXCL) - err = -EEXIST; + if ((nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_EXCL) && + rule_exists(ops, frh, tb, rule)) { + err = -EEXIST; goto errout_free; } -- 2.19.2