[NETLINK]: illegal use of pid in rtnetlink
When a netlink message is not related to a netlink socket,
it is issued by kernel socket with pid 0. Netlink "pid" has nothing
to do with current->pid. I called it incorrectly, if it was named "port",
the confusion would be avoided.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
index ef4724d..0f4145b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@
}
nl->nlmsg_flags = NLM_F_REQUEST;
- nl->nlmsg_pid = current->pid;
+ nl->nlmsg_pid = 0;
nl->nlmsg_seq = 0;
nl->nlmsg_len = NLMSG_LENGTH(sizeof(*rtm));
if (cmd == SIOCDELRT) {