[PATCHv7 net-next 3/4] rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_newlink_create
From: Hangbin Liu <hidden>
Date: 2022-10-28 08:43:07
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
This patch pass the netlink header message in rtnl_newlink_create() to the new updated rtnl_configure_link(), so that the kernel could reply unicast when userspace set NLM_F_ECHO flag to request the new created interface info. Suggested-by: Guillaume Nault <redacted> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <redacted> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index c9dd9730f3c6..839ff8b7eadc 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c@@ -3312,11 +3312,13 @@ static int rtnl_group_changelink(const struct sk_buff *skb, static int rtnl_newlink_create(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ifinfomsg *ifm, const struct rtnl_link_ops *ops, + const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct nlattr **tb, struct nlattr **data, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) { unsigned char name_assign_type = NET_NAME_USER; struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk); + u32 portid = NETLINK_CB(skb).portid; struct net *dest_net, *link_net; struct net_device *dev; char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
@@ -3370,7 +3372,7 @@ static int rtnl_newlink_create(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ifinfomsg *ifm, goto out; } - err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm, 0, NULL); + err = rtnl_configure_link(dev, ifm, portid, nlh); if (err < 0) goto out_unregister; if (link_net) {
@@ -3579,7 +3581,7 @@ static int __rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, return -EOPNOTSUPP; } - return rtnl_newlink_create(skb, ifm, ops, tb, data, extack); + return rtnl_newlink_create(skb, ifm, ops, nlh, tb, data, extack); } static int rtnl_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
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