---

yaml
---
r: 22242
b: refs/heads/master
c: b191ba0
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 0ac81ae34ec8898e7eb1388fe21e3cee7b626a88
+refs/heads/master: b191ba0d599928372be5a89f75486eb58efab48a

trunk/Documentation/connector/connector.txt

@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ Unregisters new callback with connector core.
 
 struct cb_id *id 		- unique connector's user identifier.
 
-void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
+int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
 
 Sends message to the specified groups.  It can be safely called from
-any context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure.
+softirq context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure.
+If there are no listeners for given group -ESRCH can be returned.
 
 struct cn_msg *			- message header(with attached data).
 u32 __group			- destination group.

trunk/drivers/connector/connector.c

@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __group, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		group = __group;
 	}
 
+	if (!netlink_has_listeners(dev->nls, group))
+		return -ESRCH;
+
 	size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg->len);
 
 	skb = alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask);
@@ -111,9 +114,7 @@ int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __group, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 
 	NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = group;
 
-	netlink_broadcast(dev->nls, skb, 0, group, gfp_mask);
-
-	return 0;
+	return netlink_broadcast(dev->nls, skb, 0, group, gfp_mask);
 
 nlmsg_failure:
 	kfree_skb(skb);