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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2007-03-22 23:30:12 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-04-25 22:27:30 -0700
commit1d00a4eb42bdade33a6ec0961cada93577a66ae6 (patch)
treea181b141818f594eb544601386bf09e45e6193bb /net/netlink/af_netlink.c
parent45e7ae7f716086994e4e747226881f901c67b031 (diff)
[NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handler
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/af_netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c21
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 5d1079b1838c..1823b7c63156 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
}
static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
- struct nlmsghdr *, int *))
+ struct nlmsghdr *))
{
struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
int err;
@@ -1483,13 +1483,11 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
goto skip;
- if (cb(skb, nlh, &err) < 0) {
- /* Not an error, but we have to interrupt processing
- * here. Note: that in this case we do not pull
- * message from skb, it will be processed later.
- */
- if (err == 0)
- return -1;
+ err = cb(skb, nlh);
+ if (err == -EINTR) {
+ /* Not an error, but we interrupt processing */
+ netlink_queue_skip(nlh, skb);
+ return err;
}
skip:
if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK || err)
@@ -1515,9 +1513,14 @@ skip:
*
* qlen must be initialized to 0 before the initial entry, afterwards
* the function may be called repeatedly until qlen reaches 0.
+ *
+ * The callback function may return -EINTR to signal that processing
+ * of netlink messages shall be interrupted. In this case the message
+ * currently being processed will NOT be requeued onto the receive
+ * queue.
*/
void netlink_run_queue(struct sock *sk, unsigned int *qlen,
- int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *, int *))
+ int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *))
{
struct sk_buff *skb;