The helper registration return value is passed-through by module_init
callbacks which modprobe confuses with the harmless -EEXIST returned
when trying to load an already loaded module.
Make sure modprobe fails so users notice their helper has not been
registered and won't work.
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Fixes:
12f7a505331e ("netfilter: add user-space connection tracking helper infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
(cur->tuple.src.l3num == NFPROTO_UNSPEC ||
cur->tuple.src.l3num == me->tuple.src.l3num) &&
cur->tuple.dst.protonum == me->tuple.dst.protonum) {
- ret = -EEXIST;
+ ret = -EBUSY;
goto out;
}
}
hlist_for_each_entry(cur, &nf_ct_helper_hash[h], hnode) {
if (nf_ct_tuple_src_mask_cmp(&cur->tuple, &me->tuple,
&mask)) {
- ret = -EEXIST;
+ ret = -EBUSY;
goto out;
}
}