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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2007-03-22 23:28:46 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-04-25 22:27:29 -0700
commitd35b685640aeb39eb4f5e98c75e8e001e406f9a3 (patch)
treec3ec38a2fb54a3783dd9c764bf58be68557f9396 /net/core
parent[NETLINK]: Remove unused groups variable (diff)
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[NETLINK]: Ignore !NLM_F_REQUEST messages directly in netlink_run_queue()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 4398cb81bcab..cc09283fd76a 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -862,10 +862,6 @@ rtnetlink_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int *errp)
int type;
int err;
- /* Only requests are handled by kernel now */
- if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags&NLM_F_REQUEST))
- return 0;
-
type = nlh->nlmsg_type;
/* A control message: ignore them */