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Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/af_netlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 1823b7c6315..2cbf1682f63 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -1426,7 +1426,12 @@ int netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, netlink_dump(sk); sock_put(sk); - return 0; + + /* We successfully started a dump, by returning -EINTR we + * signal the queue mangement to interrupt processing of + * any netlink messages so userspace gets a chance to read + * the results. */ + return -EINTR; } void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err) |