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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>
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:31:24 +0000 (18:31 -0700)
commitebf4127cd677e9781b450e44dfaaa1cc595efcaa
tree99782f5b7e37526deb763b83d3a2f5373bfd6e88
parentb5fb0a03214dfd02bc34bda659d5b89ef12741b2
kobj_uevent: Ignore if some listeners cannot handle message

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>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
lib/kobject_uevent.c