netdev - [PATCH net] net: neigh: Fix netevent NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 01:00:36 +0100
From:   Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@....de>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] 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.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@....de>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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);
 }
-- 
2.11.0