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Eric points out that our current suggested way of handling EMSGSIZE errors ((err == -EMSGSIZE) ? skb->len : err) will break if we didn't fit even a single object into the buffer provided by the user. This should not happen for well behaved applications, but we can fix that, and free netlink families from dealing with that completely by moving error handling into the core. Let's assume from now on that all EMSGSIZE errors in dumps are because we run out of skb space. Families can now propagate the error nla_put_*() etc generated and not worry about any return value magic. If some family really wants to send EMSGSIZE to user space, assuming it generates the same error on the next dump iteration the skb->len should be 0, and user space should still see the EMSGSIZE. This should simplify families and prevent mistakes in return values which lead to DONE being forced into a separate recv() call as discovered by Ido some time ago. Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.