Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: dont send notification when skb->len == 0 in rtnl_bridge_notify

From: roopa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 05:37:48 -0800

On 1/27/15, 11:05 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:46:24 -0800
>
>> From: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
>>
>> Reported in: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92081
>>
>> This patch avoids calling rtnl_notify if the device ndo_bridge_getlink
>> handler does not return any bytes in the skb.
>>
>> Alternately, the skb->len check can be moved inside rtnl_notify.
>>
>> For the bridge vlan case described in 92081, there is also a fix needed
>> in bridge driver to generate a proper notification. Will fix that in
>> subsequent patch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <[email-masked]>
> This doesn't apply to the 'net' tree, is there something I missed?
sorry, that's me. This should be net-next. Resubmitting with net-next in 
the PATCH line.

thanks.