Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: do not emit warn while dumping MPTCP on old kernels
From: Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo) <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-27 13:33:23
On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 17:02 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
Prior to this commit, running 'ss' on a kernel older than v5.9 bumps an error message: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
Thanks, works perfectly for me. -Tommi
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When asked to dump protocol number > 255 - that is: MPTCP - 'ss' adds an INET_DIAG_REQ_PROTOCOL attribute, unsupported by the older kernel. Avoid the warning ignoring filter issues when INET_DIAG_REQ_PROTOCOL is used. Additionally older kernel end-up invoking tcpdiag_send(), which in turn will try to dump DCCP socks. Bail early in such function, as the kernel does not implement an MPTCPDIAG_GET request. Reported-by: "Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo)" < tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com> Fixes: 9c3be2c0eee0 ("ss: mptcp: add msk diag interface support") Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> --- misc/ss.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/misc/ss.c b/misc/ss.c index 0593627b..ad46f9db 100644 --- a/misc/ss.c +++ b/misc/ss.c@@ -3404,7 +3404,7 @@ static int tcpdiag_send(int fd, int protocol, structfilter *f) struct iovec iov[3]; int iovlen = 1; - if (protocol == IPPROTO_UDP) + if (protocol == IPPROTO_UDP || protocol == IPPROTO_MPTCP) return -1; if (protocol == IPPROTO_TCP)@@ -3623,6 +3623,14 @@ static int inet_show_netlink(struct filter *f, FILE*dump_fp, int protocol) if (preferred_family == PF_INET6) family = PF_INET6; + /* extended protocol will use INET_DIAG_REQ_PROTOCOL, + * not supported by older kernels. On such kernel + * rtnl_dump will bail with rtnl_dump_error(). + * Suppress the error to avoid confusing the user + */ + if (protocol > 255) + rth.flags |= RTNL_HANDLE_F_SUPPRESS_NLERR; + again: if ((err = sockdiag_send(family, rth.fd, protocol, f))) goto Exit;