This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
bridge/mdb: remove wrong use of NLM_F_MULTI
to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt22.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From a4485b0fe90356e12957d954e7e20821e0b16c97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:33:48 +0200
Subject: bridge/mdb: remove wrong use of NLM_F_MULTI
commit 821996795973fd52703c35811a03db9fec1ac141 upstream.
NLM_F_MULTI must be used only when a NLMSG_DONE message is sent. In fact,
it is sent only at the end of a dump.
Libraries like libnl will wait forever for NLMSG_DONE.
Fixes: 37a393bc4932 ("bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink")
CC: Cong Wang <amw...@redhat.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
CC: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>
---
net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
index b7b1914..b734575 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static int nlmsg_populate_mdb_fill(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct br_port_msg *bpm;
struct nlattr *nest, *nest2;
- nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, type, sizeof(*bpm), NLM_F_MULTI);
+ nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, type, sizeof(*bpm), 0);
if (!nlh)
return -EMSGSIZE;
--
1.9.1
