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[v2,1/2] rtnetlink: use nlmsg_notify() in rtnetlink_send()

Message ID 20210715121258.18385-2-yajun.deng@linux.dev (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
Commit cfdf0d9ae75b40013364ddb61a25926ccc9f83ea
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series net: Deal with if statement in rtnetlink_send() | expand

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Yajun Deng July 15, 2021, 12:12 p.m. UTC
The netlink_{broadcast, unicast} don't deal with 'if (err > 0' statement
but nlmsg_{multicast, unicast} do. The nlmsg_notify() contains them.
so use nlmsg_notify() instead. so that the caller wouldn't deal with
'if (err > 0' statement.

v2: use nlmsg_notify() will do well.

Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@linux.dev>
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 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index f6af3e74fc44..670d74ab91ae 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -710,15 +710,8 @@  static int rtnl_link_fill(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct net_device *dev)
 int rtnetlink_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net *net, u32 pid, unsigned int group, int echo)
 {
 	struct sock *rtnl = net->rtnl;
-	int err = 0;
 
-	NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = group;
-	if (echo)
-		refcount_inc(&skb->users);
-	netlink_broadcast(rtnl, skb, pid, group, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (echo)
-		err = netlink_unicast(rtnl, skb, pid, MSG_DONTWAIT);
-	return err;
+	return nlmsg_notify(rtnl, skb, pid, group, echo, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
 int rtnl_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net *net, u32 pid)