Commit 28633514 authored by Alexey Kuznetsov's avatar Alexey Kuznetsov Committed by David S. Miller

[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: default avatarAlexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a70ea994
......@@ -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;
}
......
......@@ -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 {
......
......@@ -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) {
......
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