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[NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handler

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The error pointer argument in netlink message handlers is used
to signal the special case where processing has to be interrupted
because a dump was started but no error happened. Instead it is
simpler and more clear to return -EINTR and have netlink_run_queue()
deal with getting the queue right.

nfnetlink passed on this error pointer to its subsystem handlers
but only uses it to signal the start of a netlink dump. Therefore
it can be removed there as well.

This patch also cleans up the error handling in the affected
message handlers to be consistent since it had to be touched anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thomas Graf
2007-03-22 23:30:12 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 45e7ae7f71
commit 1d00a4eb42
10 changed files with 93 additions and 156 deletions
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@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct nl_info {
extern void netlink_run_queue(struct sock *sk, unsigned int *qlen,
int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
struct nlmsghdr *, int *));
struct nlmsghdr *));
extern void netlink_queue_skip(struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
struct sk_buff *skb);
extern int nlmsg_notify(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,