netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] rtnetlink: fix fdb notification flags

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] rtnetlink: fix fdb notification flags

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:47:49 +0100

> Commit 3ff661c38c84 ("net: rtnetlink notify events for FDB NTF_SELF adds and
> deletes") reuses the function nlmsg_populate_fdb_fill() to notify fdb events.
> But this function was used only for dump and thus was always setting the
> flag NLM_F_MULTI, which is wrong in case of a single notification.
> 
> Libraries like libnl will wait forever for NLMSG_DONE.
> 
> CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Applied.
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