From 59d3efd27c11c59b32291e5ebc307bed2edb65ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Willi Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:43:19 +0200 Subject: rtnetlink: Restore RTM_NEW/DELLINK notification behavior The commits referenced below allows userspace to use the NLM_F_ECHO flag for RTM_NEW/DELLINK operations to receive unicast notifications for the affected link. Prior to these changes, applications may have relied on multicast notifications to learn the same information without specifying the NLM_F_ECHO flag. For such applications, the mentioned commits changed the behavior for requests not using NLM_F_ECHO. Multicast notifications are still received, but now use the portid of the requester and the sequence number of the request instead of zero values used previously. For the application, this message may be unexpected and likely handled as a response to the NLM_F_ACKed request, especially if it uses the same socket to handle requests and notifications. To fix existing applications relying on the old notification behavior, set the portid and sequence number in the notification only if the request included the NLM_F_ECHO flag. This restores the old behavior for applications not using it, but allows unicasted notifications for others. Fixes: f3a63cce1b4f ("rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_delete_link") Fixes: d88e136cab37 ("rtnetlink: Honour NLM_F_ECHO flag in rtnl_newlink_create") Signed-off-by: Martin Willi Acked-by: Guillaume Nault Acked-by: Hangbin Liu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230411074319.24133-1-martin@strongswan.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- include/linux/rtnetlink.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h index 92ad75549e9c..b6e6378dcbbd 100644 --- a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h +++ b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ void rtmsg_ifinfo_newnet(int type, struct net_device *dev, unsigned int change, struct sk_buff *rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb(int type, struct net_device *dev, unsigned change, u32 event, gfp_t flags, int *new_nsid, - int new_ifindex, u32 portid, u32 seq); + int new_ifindex, u32 portid, + const struct nlmsghdr *nlh); void rtmsg_ifinfo_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, gfp_t flags, u32 portid, const struct nlmsghdr *nlh); -- cgit v1.2.3