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);