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[NETLINK]: Ignore !NLM_F_REQUEST messages directly in netlink_run_queue()

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netlink_rcv_skb() is changed to skip messages which don't have the
NLM_F_REQUEST bit to avoid every netlink family having to perform this
check on their own.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thomas Graf
2007-03-22 23:28:46 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 33a0543cd9
commit d35b685640
4 changed files with 8 additions and 12 deletions
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net/netlink/af_netlink.c
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@@ -1470,10 +1470,15 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
while (skb->len >= nlmsg_total_size(0)) {
nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
err = 0;
if (nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN || skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len)
return 0;
/* Only requests are handled by the kernel */
if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
goto skip;
if (cb(skb, nlh, &err) < 0) {
/* Not an error, but we have to interrupt processing
* here. Note: that in this case we do not pull
@@ -1481,9 +1486,10 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
*/
if (err == 0)
return -1;
}
skip:
if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK || err)
netlink_ack(skb, nlh, err);
} else if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK)
netlink_ack(skb, nlh, 0);
netlink_queue_skip(nlh, skb);
}