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Roopa Prabhu 7b8f7a402d neighbour: fix nlmsg_pid in notifications ...

neigh notifications today carry pid 0 for nlmsg_pid
in all cases. This patch fixes it to carry calling process
pid when available. Applications (eg. quagga) rely on
nlmsg_pid to ignore notifications generated by their own
netlink operations. This patch follows the routing subsystem
which already sets this correctly.

Reported-by: Vivek Venkatraman <vivek@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2017-03-22 10:48:49 -07:00

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