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authorMartin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>2023-04-11 09:43:19 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-04-12 20:47:58 -0700
commit59d3efd27c11c59b32291e5ebc307bed2edb65ee (patch)
treece16413675c1a6a99ecad9f1ddcdb61aed9e9371 /net/core/rtnetlink.c
parent136f36c74b0345d5d0087d4094894a006470bbd5 (diff)
rtnetlink: Restore RTM_NEW/DELLINK notification behavior
The commits referenced below allows userspace to use the NLM_F_ECHO flag for RTM_NEW/DELLINK operations to receive unicast notifications for the affected link. Prior to these changes, applications may have relied on multicast notifications to learn the same information without specifying the NLM_F_ECHO flag. For such applications, the mentioned commits changed the behavior for requests not using NLM_F_ECHO. Multicast notifications are still received, but now use the portid of the requester and the sequence number of the request instead of zero values used previously. For the application, this message may be unexpected and likely handled as a response to the NLM_F_ACKed request, especially if it uses the same socket to handle requests and notifications. To fix existing applications relying on the old notification behavior, set the portid and sequence number in the notification only if the request included the NLM_F_ECHO flag. This restores the old behavior for applications not using it, but allows unicasted notifications for others. Fixes: f3a63cce1b4f ("rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_delete_link") Fixes: d88e136cab37 ("rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_newlink_create") Signed-off-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org> Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230411074319.24133-1-martin@strongswan.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 5d8eb57867a9..6e44e92ebdf5 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3972,16 +3972,23 @@ static int rtnl_dump_all(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
struct sk_buff *rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(int type, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int change,
u32 event, gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid,
- int new_ifindex, u32 portid, u32 seq)
+ int new_ifindex, u32 portid,
+ const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
{
struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
struct sk_buff *skb;
int err = -ENOBUFS;
+ u32 seq = 0;
skb = nlmsg_new(if_nlmsg_size(dev, 0), flags);
if (skb == NULL)
goto errout;
+ if (nlmsg_report(nlh))
+ seq = nlmsg_seq(nlh);
+ else
+ portid = 0;
+
err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, dev_net(dev),
type, portid, seq, change, 0, 0, event,
new_nsid, new_ifindex, -1, flags);
@@ -4017,7 +4024,7 @@ static void rtmsg_ifinfo_event(int type, struct net_device *dev,
return;
skb = rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(type, dev, change, event, flags, new_nsid,
- new_ifindex, portid, nlmsg_seq(nlh));
+ new_ifindex, portid, nlh);
if (skb)
rtmsg_ifinfo_send(skb, dev, flags, portid, nlh);
}