Commit 573bf470 authored by Thomas Graf's avatar Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv4 addr: Send netlink notification for address label changes 



Makes people happy who try to keep a list of addresses up to date by
listening to notifications.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c5ec5140

net/ipv4/devinet.c

+3 −1
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ static void inetdev_changename(struct net_device *dev, struct in_device *in_dev) 
		memcpy(old, ifa->ifa_label, IFNAMSIZ);

		memcpy(ifa->ifa_label, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);

		if (named++ == 0)

			continue;

			goto skip;

		dot = strchr(old, ':');

		if (dot == NULL) {

			sprintf(old, ":%d", named);
@@ -1024,6 +1024,8 @@ static void inetdev_changename(struct net_device *dev, struct in_device *in_dev) 
		} else {

			strcpy(ifa->ifa_label + (IFNAMSIZ - strlen(dot) - 1), dot);

		}

skip:

		rtmsg_ifa(RTM_NEWADDR, ifa, NULL, 0);

	}

}