At the moment we emit the audit log a bit too early, which makes it necessary to also emit an unregister log in case we have to unwind errors after possible hook register failure. Followup patch will be slightly simpler if we can delay the register message until after the hooks have been wired up. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal --- v3: no changes. net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c index 2c67c2e6b132..bb0cb3959551 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1472,11 +1472,9 @@ struct xt_counters *xt_counters_alloc(unsigned int counters) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(xt_counters_alloc); -struct xt_table_info * -xt_replace_table(struct xt_table *table, - unsigned int num_counters, - struct xt_table_info *newinfo, - int *error) +static struct xt_table_info * +do_replace_table(struct xt_table *table, unsigned int num_counters, + struct xt_table_info *newinfo, int *error) { struct xt_table_info *private; unsigned int cpu; @@ -1531,10 +1529,23 @@ xt_replace_table(struct xt_table *table, } } - audit_log_nfcfg(table->name, table->af, private->number, - !private->number ? AUDIT_XT_OP_REGISTER : - AUDIT_XT_OP_REPLACE, - GFP_KERNEL); + return private; +} + +struct xt_table_info * +xt_replace_table(struct xt_table *table, unsigned int num_counters, + struct xt_table_info *newinfo, + int *error) +{ + struct xt_table_info *private; + + private = do_replace_table(table, num_counters, newinfo, error); + if (private) + audit_log_nfcfg(table->name, table->af, private->number, + !private->number ? AUDIT_XT_OP_REGISTER : + AUDIT_XT_OP_REPLACE, + GFP_KERNEL); + return private; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xt_replace_table); -- 2.53.0