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net: neigh: Fix netevent NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE notification

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When setting a neigh related sysctl parameter, we always send a
NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE netevent. For instance, when
executing

	sysctl net.ipv6.neigh.wlp3s0.retrans_time_ms=2000

a NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE netevent is generated.

This is caused by commit 2a4501ae18 ("neigh: Send a
notification when DELAY_PROBE_TIME changes"). According to the
commit's description, it was intended to generate such an event
when setting the "delay_first_probe_time" sysctl parameter.

In order to fix this, only generate this event when actually
setting the "delay_first_probe_time" sysctl parameter. This fix
should not have any unintended side-effects, because all but one
registered netevent callbacks check for other netevent event
types (the registered callbacks were obtained by grepping for
"register_netevent_notifier"). The only callback that uses the
NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE event is
mlxsw_sp_router_netevent_event() (in
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c): in case
of this event, it only accesses the DELAY_PROBE_TIME of the
passed neigh_parms.

Fixes: 2a4501ae18 ("neigh: Send a notification when DELAY_PROBE_TIME changes")
Signed-off-by: Marcus Huewe <suse-tux@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Marcus Huewe 2017-02-15 01:00:36 +01:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent acf138f1b0
commit 7627ae6030
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -2923,7 +2923,8 @@ static void neigh_proc_update(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write)
return;
set_bit(index, p->data_state);
call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE, p);
if (index == NEIGH_VAR_DELAY_PROBE_TIME)
call_netevent_notifiers(NETEVENT_DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE, p);
if (!dev) /* NULL dev means this is default value */
neigh_copy_dflt_parms(net, p, index);
}