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From: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>,
	 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,  Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,  lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,  coreteam@netfilter.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ipvs: skip committing sync_threshold when proc_dointvec fails
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:08:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922-lklm-sysctl-retval-fix-v1-1-7290ea4253a4@kernel.org> (raw)

Forward rc value and skip updating sysctl_sync_threshold when
proc_dointvec fails. This targets a write such as "5 x" which would fail
with -EINVAL but would store the first element anyway.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index 4c1c739446b76ea455dab2958a844d05e31a46a7..7c260529238cd2015f1d30abd094d25b056b30fa 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -2454,6 +2454,8 @@ proc_do_sync_threshold(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	mutex_lock(&ipvs->sync_mutex);
 	memcpy(val, valp, sizeof(val));
 	rc = proc_dointvec(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	if (rc)
+		goto out;
 	if (write) {
 		if (val[0] < 0 || val[1] < 0 ||
 		    (val[0] >= val[1] && val[1]))
@@ -2461,6 +2463,7 @@ proc_do_sync_threshold(const struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		else
 			memcpy(valp, val, sizeof(val));
 	}
+out:
 	mutex_unlock(&ipvs->sync_mutex);
 	return rc;
 }

---
base-commit: 93f51579e7df248780214094418f205253383cc5
change-id: 20260922-lklm-sysctl-retval-fix-abad29dc37bd

Best regards,
-- 
Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>



             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-22  9:08 UTC|newest]

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2026-09-22  9:08 Joel Granados [this message]
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