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-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 98e313e5e59..325272925d0 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1565,7 +1565,11 @@ int netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
netlink_dump(sk);
sock_put(sk);
- return 0;
+
+ /* We successfully started a dump, by returning -EINTR we
+ * signal not to send ACK even if it was requested.
+ */
+ return -EINTR;
}
void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
@@ -1619,17 +1623,21 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
/* Only requests are handled by the kernel */
if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
- goto skip;
+ goto ack;
/* Skip control messages */
if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
- goto skip;
+ goto ack;
err = cb(skb, nlh);
-skip:
+ if (err == -EINTR)
+ goto skip;
+
+ack:
if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK || err)
netlink_ack(skb, nlh, err);
+skip:
msglen = NLMSG_ALIGN(nlh->nlmsg_len);
if (msglen > skb->len)
msglen = skb->len;