From: Milan Broz <[email protected]> ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. -------------------
commit ebf4127cd677e9781b450e44dfaaa1cc595efcaa upstream. kobject_uevent() uses a multicast socket and should ignore if one of listeners cannot handle messages or nobody is listening at all. Easily reproducible when a process in system is cloned with CLONE_NEWNET flag. (See also http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5256) Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> --- lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c index 7b48d44..0273ead 100644 --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action, retval = netlink_broadcast(uevent_sock, skb, 0, 1, GFP_KERNEL); /* ENOBUFS should be handled in userspace */ - if (retval == -ENOBUFS) + if (retval == -ENOBUFS || retval == -ESRCH) retval = 0; } else retval = -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.12.rc2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
