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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/netlink/genetlink.c
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/netlink/genetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index c2996794eb25..039516f6cd80 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -304,9 +304,6 @@ static int genl_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
struct genlmsghdr *hdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
int hdrlen, err = -EINVAL;
- if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
- goto ignore;
-
if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
goto ignore;