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authorMarcus Huewe <suse-tux@gmx.de>2017-02-15 01:00:36 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-02-15 12:38:43 -0500
commit7627ae6030f56a9a91a5b3867b21f35d79c16e64 (patch)
treecf07d58102c52ec80609175dfc2c123dd80ac96a /net/core
parentacf138f1b00bdd1b7cd9894562ed0c2a1670888e (diff)
net: neigh: Fix netevent NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE notification
When setting a neigh related sysctl parameter, we always send a NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE netevent. For instance, when executing sysctl net.ipv6.neigh.wlp3s0.retrans_time_ms=2000 a NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE netevent is generated. This is caused by commit 2a4501ae18b5 ("neigh: Send a notification when DELAY_PROBE_TIME changes"). According to the commit's description, it was intended to generate such an event when setting the "delay_first_probe_time" sysctl parameter. In order to fix this, only generate this event when actually setting the "delay_first_probe_time" sysctl parameter. This fix should not have any unintended side-effects, because all but one registered netevent callbacks check for other netevent event types (the registered callbacks were obtained by grepping for "register_netevent_notifier"). The only callback that uses the NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE event is mlxsw_sp_router_netevent_event() (in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c): in case of this event, it only accesses the DELAY_PROBE_TIME of the passed neigh_parms. Fixes: 2a4501ae18b5 ("neigh: Send a notification when DELAY_PROBE_TIME changes") Signed-off-by: Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/neighbour.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index 7bb12e07ffef..e7c12caa20c8 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -2923,7 +2923,8 @@ static void neigh_proc_update(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write)
return;
set_bit(index, p->data_state);
- call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE, p);
+ if (index == NEIGH_VAR_DELAY_PROBE_TIME)
+ call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE, p);
if (!dev) /* NULL dev means this is default value */
neigh_copy_dflt_parms(net, p, index);
}