When changing dev tx_queue_len via netlink or net-sysfs, a NETDEV_CHANGE_TX_QUEUE_LEN event notification will be called.
But dev_ioctl missed this event notification, which could cause no userspace notification would be sent. Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com> --- net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c index 709a4e6..f9c7a88 100644 --- a/net/core/dev_ioctl.c +++ b/net/core/dev_ioctl.c @@ -303,7 +303,18 @@ static int dev_ifsioc(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cmd) case SIOCSIFTXQLEN: if (ifr->ifr_qlen < 0) return -EINVAL; - dev->tx_queue_len = ifr->ifr_qlen; + if (dev->tx_queue_len ^ ifr->ifr_qlen) { + unsigned int orig_len = dev->tx_queue_len; + + dev->tx_queue_len = ifr->ifr_qlen; + err = call_netdevice_notifiers( + NETDEV_CHANGE_TX_QUEUE_LEN, dev); + err = notifier_to_errno(err); + if (err) { + dev->tx_queue_len = orig_len; + return err; + } + } return 0; case SIOCSIFNAME: -- 2.1.0