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Xin Long says:

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rtnetlink: a bunch of fixes for userspace notifications in changing dev properties

Whenever any property of a link, address, route, etc. changes by whatever way,
kernel should notify the programs that listen for such events in userspace.

The patchet "rtnetlink: Cleanup user notifications for netdev events" tried to
fix a redundant notifications issue, but it also introduced a side effect.

After that, user notifications could only be sent when changing dev properties
via netlink api. As it removed some events process in rtnetlink_event where
the notifications was sent to users.

It resulted in no notification generated when dev properties are changed via
other ways, like ioctl, sysfs, etc. It may cause some user programs doesn't
work as expected because of the missing notifications.

This patchset will fix it by bringing some of these netdev events back and
also fix the old redundant notifications issue with a proper way.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-16 20:48:45 +01:00
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kernel Revert "net: defer call to cgroup_sk_alloc()" 2017-10-10 20:24:29 -07:00
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mm net: memcontrol: defer call to mem_cgroup_sk_alloc() 2017-10-09 20:55:01 -07:00
net rtnetlink: do not set notification for tx_queue_len in do_setlink 2017-10-16 20:48:45 +01:00
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tools selftests/net: rxtimestamp: Fix an off by one 2017-10-05 21:28:53 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.