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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/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | |
| 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/ipv4/fib_semantics.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c index ef4724de7350..0f4145babb14 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ fib_convert_rtentry(int cmd, struct nlmsghdr *nl, struct rtmsg *rtm, } nl->nlmsg_flags = NLM_F_REQUEST; - nl->nlmsg_pid = current->pid; + nl->nlmsg_pid = 0; nl->nlmsg_seq = 0; nl->nlmsg_len = NLMSG_LENGTH(sizeof(*rtm)); if (cmd == SIOCDELRT) { |