The check 'status & DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY' in do_setlink doesn't really work after status & DO_SETLINK_MODIFIED, as:
DO_SETLINK_MODIFIED 0x1 DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY 0x3 Considering that notifications are suppposed to be sent only when status have the flag DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY, the right check would be: (status & DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY) == DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY This would avoid lots of duplicated notifications when setting some properties of a link. Fixes: ba9989069f4e ("rtnl/do_setlink(): notify when a netdev is modified") Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index ab98c1c..3e98fb5 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2248,7 +2248,7 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb, errout: if (status & DO_SETLINK_MODIFIED) { - if (status & DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY) + if ((status & DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY) == DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY) netdev_state_change(dev); if (err < 0) -- 2.1.0