[v3 RFC PATCH 4/8] netlink: Add NLM_F_NOREPLY flags.

[v3 RFC PATCH 4/8] netlink: Add NLM_F_NOREPLY flags.

[David Miller]

It is used to bypass the response generation for "GET" type
operations.

This mechanism can then be used to allow a query operation to be used
in a "benchmarking" role, since the actual overhead of the netlink
communications will be muted.

The first query to support this is inet_rtm_getroute().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 include/linux/netlink.h |    2 ++
 net/ipv4/route.c        |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index e2b9e63..a4bc8d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ struct nlmsghdr {
 #define NLM_F_CREATE	0x400	/* Create, if it does not exist	*/
 #define NLM_F_APPEND	0x800	/* Add to end of list		*/
 
+#define NLM_F_NOREPLY	0x1000	/* Do not generate reply	*/
+
 /*
    4.4BSD ADD		NLM_F_CREATE|NLM_F_EXCL
    4.4BSD CHANGE	NLM_F_REPLACE
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index efefefa..e59241f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -2110,6 +2110,9 @@ static int inet_rtm_getroute(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void
 		goto errout_free;
 
 	skb_dst_set(skb, &rt->dst);
+	if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_NOREPLY)
+		goto errout_free;
+
 	if (rtm->rtm_flags & RTM_F_NOTIFY)
 		rt->rt_flags |= RTCF_NOTIFY;
 
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