[CONNECTOR]: Use netlink_has_listeners() to avoind unnecessary allocations.
Return -ESRCH from cn_netlink_send() when there are not listeners,
just as it could be done by netlink_broadcast(). Propagate
netlink_broadcast() error back to the caller.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
index 57a314b..ad6e0ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
+++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@
struct cb_id *id - unique connector's user identifier.
-void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
+int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
Sends message to the specified groups. It can be safely called from
-any context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure.
+softirq context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure.
+If there are no listeners for given group -ESRCH can be returned.
struct cn_msg * - message header(with attached data).
u32 __group - destination group.
diff --git a/drivers/connector/connector.c b/drivers/connector/connector.c
index 505677f..d7125f4 100644
--- a/drivers/connector/connector.c
+++ b/drivers/connector/connector.c
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@
group = __group;
}
+ if (!netlink_has_listeners(dev->nls, group))
+ return -ESRCH;
+
size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg->len);
skb = alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask);
@@ -111,9 +114,7 @@
NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = group;
- netlink_broadcast(dev->nls, skb, 0, group, gfp_mask);
-
- return 0;
+ return netlink_broadcast(dev->nls, skb, 0, group, gfp_mask);
nlmsg_failure:
kfree_skb(skb);