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| author | Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> | 2006-02-10 01:40:58 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-02-10 01:43:41 +0100 |
| commit | 28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f816a81d5aad85521b0c092885bd2b735bafd1d /net/core | |
| parent | [NETLINK]: Fix a severe bug (diff) | |
| download | linux-28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5.tar.xz linux-28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5.zip | |
[NETLINK]: illegal use of pid in rtnetlink
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 8700379685e0..eca2976abb25 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -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; } |