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authorArturo Borrero <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>2014-04-14 12:17:41 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2014-04-25 17:45:32 +0200
commit1be55ff3a9866cbee8fcde8d8f9425cb3d8af05d (patch)
treec5b1c78c04706938446b6d18a8ae5996fe16b455 /src
parent3e1c7b67837228e6b6b6c8cbd74500a9369c77c6 (diff)
netlink: add socket error reporting helper function
This patch adds a simple helper function to report errors while opening the Netlink socket. To help users to diagnose problems, a new NFT_EXIT_NONL exit code is included, which is 3. Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/netlink.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/netlink.c b/src/netlink.c
index 025566ad..10951f96 100644
--- a/src/netlink.c
+++ b/src/netlink.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <libmnl/libmnl.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
#include <libnftnl/table.h>
#include <libnftnl/chain.h>
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ static void __init netlink_open_sock(void)
{
nf_sock = mnl_socket_open(NETLINK_NETFILTER);
if (nf_sock == NULL)
- memory_allocation_error();
+ netlink_open_error();
fcntl(mnl_socket_get_fd(nf_sock), F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
mnl_batch_init();
@@ -73,6 +74,13 @@ int netlink_io_error(struct netlink_ctx *ctx, const struct location *loc,
return -1;
}
+void __noreturn netlink_open_error(void)
+{
+ fprintf(stderr, "E: Unable to open Netlink socket: %s\n",
+ strerror(errno));
+ exit(NFT_EXIT_NONL);
+}
+
struct nft_table *alloc_nft_table(const struct handle *h)
{
struct nft_table *nlt;