Subject: [PATCH net-next] bridge: avoid br_ifinfo_notify when nothing changed

From: Hong Zhiguo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:14:13 +0800

When neither IFF_BRIDGE_PORT or IFF_BRIDGE_PORT is set,
and afspec == NULL but  protinfo != NULL, we run into
"if (err == 0) br_ifinfo_notify(RTM_NEWLINK, p);" with
random value in ret.

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <[email-masked]>
---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 84c3b7d..b96e02e 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ int br_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	struct nlattr *afspec;
 	struct net_bridge_port *p;
 	struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_BRPORT_MAX + 1];
-	int err;
+	int err = 0;
 
 	ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
 
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ int br_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	/* We want to accept dev as bridge itself if the AF_SPEC
 	 * is set to see if someone is setting vlan info on the brigde
 	 */
-	if (!p && ((dev->priv_flags & IFF_EBRIDGE) && !afspec))
+	if (!p && !afspec)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (p && protinfo) {
-- 
1.7.10.4