[NETLINK]: Directly return -EINTR from netlink_dump_start()
Now that all users of netlink_dump_start() use netlink_run_queue()
to process the receive queue, it is possible to return -EINTR from
netlink_dump_start() directly, therefore simplying the callers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 1823b7c..2cbf168 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1426,7 +1426,12 @@
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)
