From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932592AbbCaUbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:31:51 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:38898 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752858AbbCaTsw (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:48:52 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Roopa Prabhu , "David S. Miller" , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 010/143] bridge: dont send notification when skb->len == 0 in rtnl_bridge_notify Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:46:15 -0700 Message-Id: <1427831308-1854-11-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1427831308-1854-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1427831308-1854-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.13 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.13.11-ckt18 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Roopa Prabhu [ Upstream commit 59ccaaaa49b5b096cdc1f16706a9f931416b2332 ] Reported in: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92081 This patch avoids calling rtnl_notify if the device ndo_bridge_getlink handler does not return any bytes in the skb. Alternately, the skb->len check can be moved inside rtnl_notify. For the bridge vlan case described in 92081, there is also a fix needed in bridge driver to generate a proper notification. Will fix that in subsequent patch. v2: rebase patch on net tree Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 7dca4b4..f48db99 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2542,12 +2542,16 @@ static int rtnl_bridge_notify(struct net_device *dev, u16 flags) goto errout; } + if (!skb->len) + goto errout; + rtnl_notify(skb, net, 0, RTNLGRP_LINK, NULL, GFP_ATOMIC); return 0; errout: WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE); kfree_skb(skb); - rtnl_set_sk_err(net, RTNLGRP_LINK, err); + if (err) + rtnl_set_sk_err(net, RTNLGRP_LINK, err); return err; } -- 1.9.1