[dm-devel] [PATCH] kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle message

[Milan Broz]

On 08/22/2011 09:49 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com> 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 at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  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;