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

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:18:36 +0100
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] rtnetlink: fix fdb notification flags

Le 20/03/2014 21:25, David Miller a écrit :
> 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.
>
David, do you plan to queue this serie in stable branch?
Applications using libnl may be stuck with this bug.


Thank you,
Nicolas
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