netdev - [PATCH net 1/6] rtnetlink: bring NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event process back in rtnetlink

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Date:   Sun, 15 Oct 2017 18:13:41 +0800
From:   Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: [PATCH net 1/6] rtnetlink: bring NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event process back in rtnetlink_event

Commit 085e1a65f04f ("rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for MTU
events") tried to fix the redundant notifications issue when ip link
set mtu by removing NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event process in rtnetlink_event.

But it also resulted in no notification generated when dev's mtu is
changed via other methods, like:
  'ifconfig eth1 mtu 1400' or 'echo 1400 > /sys/class/net/eth1/mtu'
It would cause users not to be notified by this change.

This patch is to fix it by bringing NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event back into
rtnetlink_event, and the redundant notifications issue will be fixed
in the later patch 'rtnetlink: check DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY correctly in
do_setlink'.

Fixes: 085e1a65f04f ("rtnetlink: Do not generate notifications for MTU events")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index d4bcdcc..72053ed 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -4279,6 +4279,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, voi

 	switch (event) {
 	case NETDEV_REBOOT:
+	case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
 	case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
 	case NETDEV_CHANGENAME:
 	case NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE:
-- 
2.1.0