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kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle message
authorMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:51:34 +0000 (15:51 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:47:22 +0000 (13:47 -0800)
commitda3dd7ab0e1ac9053a88deb3e8fe38c698a27eb3
treef153a97bf9774d097aecb20d23ec85a424116582
parent4f58b434a141e82a11b3d9d64a495bf8e11c8562
kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle message

commit ebf4127cd677e9781b450e44dfaaa1cc595efcaa upstream.

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)

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
lib/kobject_uevent.c