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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2011-12-05 19:12:47 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-12-09 16:23:50 -0800
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driver-core: skip uevent generation when nobody is listening
Most network namespaces unlikely have listeners to uevents, and should benefit from skipping all the string copies. Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index ad72a03ce5e9..e66e9b632617 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
struct sk_buff *skb;
size_t len;
+ if (!netlink_has_listeners(uevent_sock, 1))
+ continue;
+
/* allocate message with the maximum possible size */
len = strlen(action_string) + strlen(devpath) + 2;
skb = alloc_skb(len + env->buflen, GFP_KERNEL);