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| author |   Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> | 2006-02-09 16:40:58 -0800 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-02-09 16:43:41 -0800 |
| commit | 28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f816a81d5aad85521b0c092885bd2b735bafd1d /net/ipv4/devinet.c | |
| parent | [NETLINK]: Fix a severe bug (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5.tar.xz linux-dev-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/devinet.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index 95b9d81ac488..3ffa60dadc0c 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ static void rtmsg_ifa(int event, struct in_ifaddr* ifa) if (!skb) netlink_set_err(rtnl, 0, RTNLGRP_IPV4_IFADDR, ENOBUFS); - else if (inet_fill_ifaddr(skb, ifa, current->pid, 0, event, 0) < 0) { + else if (inet_fill_ifaddr(skb, ifa, 0, 0, event, 0) < 0) { kfree_skb(skb); netlink_set_err(rtnl, 0, RTNLGRP_IPV4_IFADDR, EINVAL); } else { |