netdev - Re: regression due to "flush SAD/SPD generate false events"

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Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:55:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	adobriyan@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression due to "flush SAD/SPD generate false events"

From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:49:13 -0500

> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:40 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> Please do, your changes are reverted so I need the whole
>> thing back.
> 
> np.
> Q: Something odd i noticed when looking at pfkey (different behavior
> from netlink):
> 
> pfkey_sendmsg() does at the end:
> return err ? : len;
> 
> So if err was 0, it will always return the length which is
> 16 in the flush which was causing the EAGAIN Alexey saw. If i returned
> the correct error (ESRCH), it goes unfiltered.
> It sounds to me that should just unconditionaly return err, no?

I don't think any sendmsg() method should return 0 when something
was actually sent.
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