From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:48:32 +0100
> Nowadays, nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH but this was not the > case when commit 134e63756d5f was pushed. > However, there was no reason to stop the loop if a netns does not have > listeners. > Returns -ESRCH only if there was no listeners in all netns. > > To avoid having the same problem in the future, I didn't take the > assumption that nlmsg_multicast() returns only 0 or -ESRCH. > > Fixes: 134e63756d5f ("genetlink: make netns aware") > CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> Ok, that indeed preserves the original behavior. Given this has been this way since 2.6.32 I wonder if fixing this might break something. Regardless, applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.