Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] rtnetlink: fix fdb notification flags

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:18:36 +0100

Le 20/03/2014 21:25, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:47:49 +0100
>
>> Commit 3ff661c38c84 ("net: rtnetlink notify events for FDB NTF_SELF adds and
>> deletes") reuses the function nlmsg_populate_fdb_fill() to notify fdb 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 <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
>
> Applied.
>
David, do you plan to queue this serie in stable branch?
Applications using libnl may be stuck with this bug.

Thank you,
Nicolas