netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] neighbour: fix nlmsg

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Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:49:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, vivek@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] neighbour: fix nlmsg_pid in notifications

From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 22:01:28 -0700

> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> neigh notifications today carry pid 0 for nlmsg_pid
> in all cases. This patch fixes it to carry calling process
> pid when available. Applications (eg. quagga) rely on
> nlmsg_pid to ignore notifications generated by their own
> netlink operations. This patch follows the routing subsystem
> which already sets this correctly.
> 
> Reported-by: Vivek Venkatraman <vivek@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied, thank you.