On 08/22/2011 09:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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) > > I am fine with the patch below. > > However if you are fine with the patch below let's just remove the > return code from code from kobject_uevent_env. We are now explicitly > ignoring all of the possible return codes from > netlink_broadcast_filtered. Until someone adds a new errno there, I think ESRCH appeared there the same way:-) I think the code is better readable now. Whatever, I do not care, patch is intended to be minimalistic (perhaps for stable series as well now). Thanks, Milan > > Ignoring all of the return codes from netlink_broadcast_filtered ignores > all of the expected errors from kobject_uevent_env, short of programmer > error. > > So why have an error code on kobject_uevent_env? > >> Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2 +- >> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c >> index 70af0a7..ad72a03 100644 >> --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c >> +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c >> @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action, >> kobj_bcast_filter, >> kobj); >> /* ENOBUFS should be handled in userspace */ >> - if (retval == -ENOBUFS) >> + if (retval == -ENOBUFS || retval == -ESRCH) >> retval = 0; >> } else >> retval = -ENOMEM; -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
