On 02/28/2019 01:28 PM, Cathy Avery wrote:
> genlmsg_multicast_allns now returns the correct statuses when a
> message is sent to a listener. However in the case of adding a
> device we want to wait for the listener otherwise we may miss the
> the device during startup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cathy Avery <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/target/target_core_user.c | 11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_user.c 
> b/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
> index 5831e0eecea1..2d3f8f5403d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
> @@ -1794,11 +1794,12 @@ static int tcmu_netlink_event_send(struct tcmu_dev 
> *udev,
>  
>       ret = genlmsg_multicast_allns(&tcmu_genl_family, skb, 0,
>                                     TCMU_MCGRP_CONFIG, GFP_KERNEL);
> -     /* We don't care if no one is listening */
> -     if (ret == -ESRCH)
> -             ret = 0;
> -     if (!ret)
> -             ret = tcmu_wait_genl_cmd_reply(udev);
> +
> +     /* Wait during an add as the listener may not be up yet */
> +     if (ret == 0 ||
> +        (ret == -ESRCH && cmd == TCMU_CMD_ADDED_DEVICE))
> +             return tcmu_wait_genl_cmd_reply(udev);
> +
>       return ret;
>  }

Looks ok to me.

Acked-by: Mike Christie <[email protected]>

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