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authorThomas Graf2007-03-23 07:29:10 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller2007-04-26 07:27:29 +0200
commit45e7ae7f716086994e4e747226881f901c67b031 (patch)
tree8f61cb9e3f67ac433e915176c2bf233d8899691d /net/netlink/af_netlink.c
parent[NETLINK]: Ignore !NLM_F_REQUEST messages directly in netlink_run_queue() (diff)
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[NETLINK]: Ignore control messages directly in netlink_run_queue()
Changes netlink_rcv_skb() to skip netlink controll messages and don't pass them on to the message handler. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/af_netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 7b455980e9bf..5d1079b1838c 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1479,6 +1479,10 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
goto skip;
+ /* Skip control messages */
+ if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
+ goto skip;
+
if (cb(skb, nlh, &err) < 0) {
/* Not an error, but we have to interrupt processing
* here. Note: that in this case we do not pull