netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink

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Date:	Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:09:06 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
CC:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink

jamal wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-04 at 13:21 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
>> Probably fixable though.
> 
> One way "i fixed it" was removed by Alexey in commit:
> 28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5
> 
> Note: Alexey is right of course.

Yes, but it was the use of current->pid that was wrong.
If one of those calls are in a path invoked through netlink
it should set nlmsg_pid.
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