netdev - [PATCH net-next] bridge: avoid br_ifinfo

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Message-Id: <1364131607-11698-1-git-send-email-honkiko@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:26:47 +0800
From:	Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au,
	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com, zhiguo.hong@....com,
	Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] bridge: avoid br_ifinfo_notify when nothing changed

When neither IFF_BRIDGE nor IFF_BRIDGE_PORT is set,
and afspec == NULL but  protinfo != NULL, we run into
"if (err == 0) br_ifinfo_notify(RTM_NEWLINK, p);" with
random value in ret.

Thanks to Sergei for pointing out the error in commit comments.

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@...il.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 84c3b7d..b96e02e 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ int br_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	struct nlattr *afspec;
 	struct net_bridge_port *p;
 	struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_BRPORT_MAX + 1];
-	int err;
+	int err = 0;
 
 	ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ int br_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	/* We want to accept dev as bridge itself if the AF_SPEC
 	 * is set to see if someone is setting vlan info on the brigde
 	 */
-	if (!p && ((dev->priv_flags & IFF_EBRIDGE) && !afspec))
+	if (!p && !afspec)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (p && protinfo) {
-- 
1.7.10.4

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