Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/textedit' and 'linus' into tracing/core

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / net / netlink / af_netlink.c

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 9eb895c..3ae3cb8 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1084,6 +1084,13 @@ out:
        return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * netlink_set_err - report error to broadcast listeners
+ * @ssk: the kernel netlink socket, as returned by netlink_kernel_create()
+ * @pid: the PID of a process that we want to skip (if any)
+ * @groups: the broadcast group that will notice the error
+ * @code: error code, must be negative (as usual in kernelspace)
+ */
 void netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, u32 pid, u32 group, int code)
 {
        struct netlink_set_err_data info;
@@ -1093,7 +1100,8 @@ void netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, u32 pid, u32 group, int code)
        info.exclude_sk = ssk;
        info.pid = pid;
        info.group = group;
-       info.code = code;
+       /* sk->sk_err wants a positive error value */
+       info.code = -code;
 
        read_lock(&nl_table_lock);