From 45e7ae7f716086994e4e747226881f901c67b031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:29:10 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/netlink/af_netlink.c') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522