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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-03-05 02:06:47 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-03-05 02:06:47 -0800
commit508827ff0ac3981d420edac64a70de7f4e304d38 (patch)
treeb0cee8ddef9f0ceab68c388e4ae46b7295eb2cb5 /net/netlink
parent2c3c3d02f28801d7ad2da4952b2c7ca6621ef221 (diff)
parent72e2240f181871675d3a979766330c91d48a1673 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index e57d700bf6d..a007dbb4c9f 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1091,6 +1091,13 @@ 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;
@@ -1100,7 +1107,8 @@ 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);