netlink_rcv_skb() is changed to skip messages which don't have the
NLM_F_REQUEST bit to avoid every netlink family having to perform this
check on their own.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: net-2.6.22/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.22.orig/net/netlink/af_netlink.c    2007-03-21 01:16:39.000000000 
+0100
+++ net-2.6.22/net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2007-03-21 01:17:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -1470,10 +1470,15 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buf
 
        while (skb->len >= nlmsg_total_size(0)) {
                nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
+               err = 0;
 
                if (nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN || skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len)
                        return 0;
 
+               /* Only requests are handled by the kernel */
+               if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
+                       goto skip;
+
                if (cb(skb, nlh, &err) < 0) {
                        /* Not an error, but we have to interrupt processing
                         * here. Note: that in this case we do not pull
@@ -1481,9 +1486,10 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buf
                         */
                        if (err == 0)
                                return -1;
+               }
+skip:
+               if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK || err)
                        netlink_ack(skb, nlh, err);
-               } else if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK)
-                       netlink_ack(skb, nlh, 0);
 
                netlink_queue_skip(nlh, skb);
        }
Index: net-2.6.22/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.22.orig/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c        2007-03-20 23:53:19.000000000 
+0100
+++ net-2.6.22/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c     2007-03-21 01:17:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -1859,9 +1859,6 @@ static int xfrm_user_rcv_msg(struct sk_b
        struct xfrm_link *link;
        int type, min_len;
 
-       if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
-               return 0;
-
        type = nlh->nlmsg_type;
 
        /* A control message: ignore them */
Index: net-2.6.22/net/netlink/genetlink.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.22.orig/net/netlink/genetlink.c     2007-03-20 23:53:19.000000000 
+0100
+++ net-2.6.22/net/netlink/genetlink.c  2007-03-21 01:17:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -304,9 +304,6 @@ static int genl_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *
        struct genlmsghdr *hdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
        int hdrlen, err = -EINVAL;
 
-       if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
-               goto ignore;
-
        if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
                goto ignore;
 
Index: net-2.6.22/net/core/rtnetlink.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.22.orig/net/core/rtnetlink.c        2007-03-21 00:52:43.000000000 
+0100
+++ net-2.6.22/net/core/rtnetlink.c     2007-03-21 01:17:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -861,10 +861,6 @@ rtnetlink_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, s
        int type;
        int err;
 
-       /* Only requests are handled by kernel now */
-       if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags&NLM_F_REQUEST))
-               return 0;
-
        type = nlh->nlmsg_type;
 
        /* A control message: ignore them */

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