linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 08/32] net: neigh: Fix netevent NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME

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Message-Id: <20170224083747.576991852@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:37:52 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@....de>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 08/32] net: neigh: Fix netevent NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE notification

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@....de>

[ Upstream commit 7627ae6030f56a9a91a5b3867b21f35d79c16e64 ]

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.

Fixes: 2a4501ae18b5 ("neigh: Send a notification when DELAY_PROBE_TIME changes")
Signed-off-by: Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@....de>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -2927,7 +2927,8 @@ static void neigh_proc_update(struct ctl
 		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);
 }