From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:12:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: driver-core: skip uevent generation when nobody is listening
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74099b18b8db0670484e0caeb3425fb29ff3144e;p=mv-sheeva.git

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>
---

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index ad72a03ce5e..e66e9b63261 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);