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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>

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Milan Broz and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ebf4127c b5fb0a03

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lib/kobject_uevent.c
··· 282 282 kobj_bcast_filter, 283 283 kobj); 284 284 /* ENOBUFS should be handled in userspace */ 285 - if (retval == -ENOBUFS) 285 + if (retval == -ENOBUFS || retval == -ESRCH) 286 286 retval = 0; 287 287 } else 288 288 retval = -ENOMEM;