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| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 9eb895c7a2a..3ae3cb81656 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -1084,6 +1084,13 @@ out: return 0; } +/** + * netlink_set_err - report error to broadcast listeners + * @ssk: the kernel netlink socket, as returned by netlink_kernel_create() + * @pid: the PID of a process that we want to skip (if any) + * @groups: the broadcast group that will notice the error + * @code: error code, must be negative (as usual in kernelspace) + */ void netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, u32 pid, u32 group, int code) { struct netlink_set_err_data info; @@ -1093,7 +1100,8 @@ void netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, u32 pid, u32 group, int code) info.exclude_sk = ssk; info.pid = pid; info.group = group; - info.code = code; + /* sk->sk_err wants a positive error value */ + info.code = -code; read_lock(&nl_table_lock); |