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Pablo Neira Ayuso 1ce85fe402 netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic 
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows:

If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and
an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error;
else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that
requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the
unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast
notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener
that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag.

This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify()
wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification
(including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case
that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets
if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and
state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets.

This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return
value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify()
(before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification
which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This
is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that
requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification
fails and should resync itself.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
 		2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
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netfilter net: replace uses of __constant_{endian} 2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
Kconfig Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode 2009-02-24 03:47:42 -08:00
Makefile IPVS: Move IPVS to net/netfilter/ipvs 2008-10-07 08:38:24 +11:00
af_inet.c gro: Optimise IPv4 packet reception 2009-02-08 20:22:19 -08:00
ah4.c netns xfrm: AH/ESP in netns! 2008-11-25 17:59:27 -08:00
arp.c net: replace uses of __constant_{endian} 2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
cipso_ipv4.c cipso: Fix documentation comment 2009-02-23 10:05:54 +11:00
datagram.c mib: add net to IP_INC_STATS_BH 2008-07-16 20:20:11 -07:00
devinet.c netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic 2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
esp4.c netns xfrm: AH/ESP in netns! 2008-11-25 17:59:27 -08:00
fib_frontend.c ip: add loose reverse path filtering 2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
fib_hash.c net: clean up net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c fib_hash.c ip_gre.c 2008-11-03 00:25:16 -08:00
fib_lookup.h
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fib_rules.c net: add fib_rules_ops to flush_cache method 2008-07-05 19:01:28 -07:00
fib_semantics.c netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic 2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
fib_trie.c net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/ipv4/ net/ipv6/ 2008-10-31 00:53:57 -07:00
icmp.c netns: Fix icmp shutdown. 2009-02-22 19:54:48 -08:00
igmp.c netns: igmp: make /proc/net/{igmp,mcfilter} per netns 2008-12-25 16:42:51 -08:00
inet_connection_sock.c net: move bsockets outside of read only beginning of struct inet_hashinfo 2009-02-01 12:31:33 -08:00
inet_diag.c net: Convert TCP/DCCP listening hash tables to use RCU 2008-11-23 17:22:55 -08:00
inet_fragment.c net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON 2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
inet_hashtables.c net: move bsockets outside of read only beginning of struct inet_hashinfo 2009-02-01 12:31:33 -08:00
inet_lro.c include/net net/ - csum_partial - remove unnecessary casts 2008-11-19 15:44:53 -08:00
inet_timewait_sock.c net: convert TCP/DCCP ehash rwlocks to spinlocks 2008-11-20 20:39:09 -08:00
inetpeer.c net: clean up net/ipv4/ah4.c esp4.c fib_semantics.c inet_connection_sock.c inetpeer.c ip_output.c 2008-11-03 00:23:42 -08:00
ip_forward.c net: reduce structures when XFRM=n 2008-10-28 13:24:06 -07:00
ip_fragment.c net: '&' redux 2008-11-03 18:21:05 -08:00
ip_gre.c gre: optimize hash lookup 2009-01-26 20:56:10 -08:00
ip_input.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-11-18 23:38:23 -08:00
ip_options.c cipso: Add support for native local labeling and fixup mapping names 2008-10-10 10:16:34 -04:00
ip_output.c ip: support for TX timestamps on UDP and RAW sockets 2009-02-15 22:43:38 -08:00
ip_sockglue.c net: ip_sockglue.c add static, annotate ports' endianness 2008-11-20 01:54:27 -08:00
ipcomp.c netns xfrm: state lookup in netns 2008-11-25 17:30:50 -08:00
ipconfig.c net: replace uses of __constant_{endian} 2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
ipip.c ip: ipip compile warning 2009-02-22 19:54:45 -08:00
ipmr.c ipmr: use goto to common label instead of opencoding 2009-02-06 23:46:51 -08:00
netfilter.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2008-11-28 02:19:15 -08:00
proc.c net: replace commatas with semicolons 2009-02-16 00:08:56 -08:00
protocol.c net: remove CVS keywords 2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
raw.c ip: support for TX timestamps on UDP and RAW sockets 2009-02-15 22:43:38 -08:00
route.c net: replace uses of __constant_{endian} 2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
syncookies.c tcp: Port redirection support for TCP 2008-10-01 07:46:49 -07:00
sysctl_net_ipv4.c net: '&' redux 2008-11-03 18:21:05 -08:00
tcp.c gro: Optimise TCP packet reception 2009-02-08 20:22:19 -08:00
tcp_bic.c
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tcp_cong.c net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) 2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
tcp_cubic.c [TCP] CUBIC v2.3 2008-11-02 00:28:10 -07:00
tcp_diag.c net: inet_diag_handler structs can be const 2008-11-19 15:43:27 -08:00
tcp_highspeed.c
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tcp_htcp.c tcp_htcp: last_cong bug fix 2008-11-12 01:41:09 -08:00
tcp_hybla.c tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd. 2008-10-07 15:58:17 -07:00
tcp_illinois.c
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tcp_input.c net_dma: convert to dma_find_channel 2009-01-06 11:38:15 -07:00
tcp_ipv4.c tcp: Like icmp use register_pernet_subsys 2009-02-22 19:54:49 -08:00
tcp_lp.c
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tcp_minisocks.c net: clean up net/ipv4/ipip.c raw.c tcp.c tcp_minisocks.c tcp_yeah.c xfrm4_policy.c 2008-11-03 00:24:34 -08:00
tcp_output.c Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-02-24 03:50:29 -08:00
tcp_probe.c net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/ipv4/ net/ipv6/ 2008-10-31 00:53:57 -07:00
tcp_scalable.c
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tcp_timer.c tcp: Stop scaring users with "treason uncloaked!" 2008-12-18 22:27:42 -08:00
tcp_vegas.c tcp: tcp_vegas cong avoid fix 2008-12-09 00:13:04 -08:00
tcp_vegas.h
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tcp_veno.c net: fix returning void-valued expression warnings 2008-05-01 02:47:38 -07:00
tcp_westwood.c
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tcp_yeah.c net: clean up net/ipv4/ipip.c raw.c tcp.c tcp_minisocks.c tcp_yeah.c xfrm4_policy.c 2008-11-03 00:24:34 -08:00
tunnel4.c [IPV4] TUNNEL4: Fix incoming packet length check for inter-protocol tunnel. 2008-06-05 04:02:33 +09:00
udp.c ip: support for TX timestamps on UDP and RAW sockets 2009-02-15 22:43:38 -08:00
udp_impl.h udp: introduce struct udp_table and multiple spinlocks 2008-10-29 01:41:45 -07:00
udplite.c udp: RCU handling for Unicast packets. 2008-10-29 02:11:14 -07:00
xfrm4_input.c ipsec: Remove useless ret variable 2008-12-26 01:31:18 -08:00
xfrm4_mode_beet.c ipsec: Interfamily IPSec BEET 2008-08-06 02:39:30 -07:00
xfrm4_mode_transport.c
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xfrm4_mode_tunnel.c xfrm: fix fragmentation for ipv4 xfrm tunnel 2008-06-17 16:38:23 -07:00
xfrm4_output.c [IPSEC]: Fix inter address family IPsec tunnel handling. 2008-03-24 14:51:51 -07:00
xfrm4_policy.c net: replace uses of __constant_{endian} 2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
xfrm4_state.c xfrm: remove useless forward declarations 2008-11-25 01:05:54 -08:00
xfrm4_tunnel.c
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