From 59ccaaaa49b5b096cdc1f16706a9f931416b2332 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roopa Prabhu Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:23:11 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bridge: dont send notification when skb->len == 0 in rtnl_bridge_notify Reported in: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92081 This patch avoids calling rtnl_notify if the device ndo_bridge_getlink handler does not return any bytes in the skb. Alternately, the skb->len check can be moved inside rtnl_notify. For the bridge vlan case described in 92081, there is also a fix needed in bridge driver to generate a proper notification. Will fix that in subsequent patch. v2: rebase patch on net tree Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 9cf6fe9ddc0c..446cbaf81185 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2895,12 +2895,16 @@ static int rtnl_bridge_notify(struct net_device *dev, u16 flags) goto errout; } + if (!skb->len) + goto errout; + rtnl_notify(skb, net, 0, RTNLGRP_LINK, NULL, GFP_ATOMIC); return 0; errout: WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE); kfree_skb(skb); - rtnl_set_sk_err(net, RTNLGRP_LINK, err); + if (err) + rtnl_set_sk_err(net, RTNLGRP_LINK, err); return err; } -- 2.20.1