This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ip6mr: fix mfc notification flags to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ip6mr-fix-mfc-notification-flags.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Apr 10 22:03:04 PDT 2014 From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:47:51 +0100 Subject: ip6mr: fix mfc notification flags From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f518338b16038beeb73e155e60d0f70beb9379f4 ] Commit 812e44dd1829 ("ip6mr: advertise new mfc entries via rtnl") reuses the function ip6mr_fill_mroute() to notify mfc events. But this function was used only for dump and thus was always setting the flag NLM_F_MULTI, which is wrong in case of a single notification. Libraries like libnl will wait forever for NLMSG_DONE. CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6mr.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c @@ -2349,13 +2349,14 @@ int ip6mr_get_route(struct net *net, } static int ip6mr_fill_mroute(struct mr6_table *mrt, struct sk_buff *skb, - u32 portid, u32 seq, struct mfc6_cache *c, int cmd) + u32 portid, u32 seq, struct mfc6_cache *c, int cmd, + int flags) { struct nlmsghdr *nlh; struct rtmsg *rtm; int err; - nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, portid, seq, cmd, sizeof(*rtm), NLM_F_MULTI); + nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, portid, seq, cmd, sizeof(*rtm), flags); if (nlh == NULL) return -EMSGSIZE; @@ -2423,7 +2424,7 @@ static void mr6_netlink_event(struct mr6 if (skb == NULL) goto errout; - err = ip6mr_fill_mroute(mrt, skb, 0, 0, mfc, cmd); + err = ip6mr_fill_mroute(mrt, skb, 0, 0, mfc, cmd, 0); if (err < 0) goto errout; @@ -2462,7 +2463,8 @@ static int ip6mr_rtm_dumproute(struct sk if (ip6mr_fill_mroute(mrt, skb, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid, cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, - mfc, RTM_NEWROUTE) < 0) + mfc, RTM_NEWROUTE, + NLM_F_MULTI) < 0) goto done; next_entry: e++; @@ -2476,7 +2478,8 @@ next_entry: if (ip6mr_fill_mroute(mrt, skb, NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid, cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, - mfc, RTM_NEWROUTE) < 0) { + mfc, RTM_NEWROUTE, + NLM_F_MULTI) < 0) { spin_unlock_bh(&mfc_unres_lock); goto done; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/ipmr-fix-mfc-notification-flags.patch queue-3.13/ip6mr-fix-mfc-notification-flags.patch queue-3.13/rtnetlink-fix-fdb-notification-flags.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html