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-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c21
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 5d1079b1838..1823b7c6315 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
}
static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
- struct nlmsghdr *, int *))
+ struct nlmsghdr *))
{
struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
int err;
@@ -1483,13 +1483,11 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
goto skip;
- if (cb(skb, nlh, &err) < 0) {
- /* Not an error, but we have to interrupt processing
- * here. Note: that in this case we do not pull
- * message from skb, it will be processed later.
- */
- if (err == 0)
- return -1;
+ err = cb(skb, nlh);
+ if (err == -EINTR) {
+ /* Not an error, but we interrupt processing */
+ netlink_queue_skip(nlh, skb);
+ return err;
}
skip:
if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK || err)
@@ -1515,9 +1513,14 @@ skip:
*
* qlen must be initialized to 0 before the initial entry, afterwards
* the function may be called repeatedly until qlen reaches 0.
+ *
+ * The callback function may return -EINTR to signal that processing
+ * of netlink messages shall be interrupted. In this case the message
+ * currently being processed will NOT be requeued onto the receive
+ * queue.
*/
void netlink_run_queue(struct sock *sk, unsigned int *qlen,
- int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *, int *))
+ int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *))
{
struct sk_buff *skb;