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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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@@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ static void rtmsg_ifa(int event, struct in_ifaddr* ifa)
if (!skb)
netlink_set_err(rtnl, 0, RTNLGRP_IPV4_IFADDR, ENOBUFS);
else if (inet_fill_ifaddr(skb, ifa, current->pid, 0, event, 0) < 0) {
else if (inet_fill_ifaddr(skb, ifa, 0, 0, event, 0) < 0) {
kfree_skb(skb);
netlink_set_err(rtnl, 0, RTNLGRP_IPV4_IFADDR, EINVAL);
} else {