Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the message building.
+void nfnetlink_set_err(u32 group, int error) +{ + netlink_set_err(nfnl, 0, group, error); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfnetlink_set_err);
Please make the pid argument controllable by the caller as well. This is necessary to avoid double error notifications when an error occurs in response to a user-request triggering notifications. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html