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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels•com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz•org>
Cc: NETDEV <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: inet_diag -- Return error code if protocol handler is missed
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 05:39:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5095C747.7090805@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121103193034.GF6055@moon>

On 11/03/2012 11:30 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> We've observed that in case if UDP diag module is not
> supported in kernel the netlink returns NLMSG_DONE without
> notifying a caller that handler is missed.
> 
> This patch makes __inet_diag_dump to return error code instead.
> 
> So as example it become possible to detect such situation
> and handle it gracefully on userspace level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz•org>
> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels•com>

Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels•com>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-04  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-03 19:30 [PATCH] net: inet_diag -- Return error code if protocol handler is missed Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-11-04  1:39 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2012-11-04  5:57   ` David Miller

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