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neighbour: fix nlmsg_pid in notifications

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neigh notifications today carry pid 0 for nlmsg_pid
in all cases. This patch fixes it to carry calling process
pid when available. Applications (eg. quagga) rely on
nlmsg_pid to ignore notifications generated by their own
netlink operations. This patch follows the routing subsystem
which already sets this correctly.

Reported-by: Vivek Venkatraman <vivek@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Roopa Prabhu
2017-03-19 22:01:28 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 7ada7ca562
commit 7b8f7a402d
5 changed files with 26 additions and 21 deletions
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include/net/neighbour.h
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@@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ static inline struct neighbour *neigh_create(struct neigh_table *tbl,
}
void neigh_destroy(struct neighbour *neigh);
int __neigh_event_send(struct neighbour *neigh, struct sk_buff *skb);
int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new, u32 flags);
int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new, u32 flags,
u32 nlmsg_pid);
void __neigh_set_probe_once(struct neighbour *neigh);
void neigh_changeaddr(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct net_device *dev);
int neigh_ifdown(struct neigh_table *tbl, struct net_device *dev);