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[NETLINK]: illegal use of pid in rtnetlink

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When a netlink message is not related to a netlink socket,
it is issued by kernel socket with pid 0. Netlink "pid" has nothing
to do with current->pid. I called it incorrectly, if it was named "port",
the confusion would be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-02-09 16:40:58 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent a70ea994a0
commit 28633514af
3 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ void rtmsg_ifinfo(int type, struct net_device *dev, unsigned change)
if (!skb)
return;
if (rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, type, current->pid, 0, change, 0) < 0) {
if (rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, type, 0, 0, change, 0) < 0) {
kfree_skb(skb);
return;
}