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    tipc: set sk_err correctly when connection fails · 2c8d8518
    Erik Hugne authored
    Should a connect fail, if the publication/server is unavailable or
    due to some other error, a positive value will be returned and errno
    is never set. If the application code checks for an explicit zero
    return from connect (success) or a negative return (failure), it
    will not catch the error and subsequent send() calls will fail as
    shown from the strace snippet below.
    
    socket(0x1e /* PF_??? */, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0) = 3
    connect(3, {sa_family=0x1e /* AF_??? */, sa_data="\2\1\322\4\0\0\322\4\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 16) = 111
    sendto(3, "test", 4, 0, NULL, 0)        = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
    
    The reason for this behaviour is that TIPC wrongly inverts error
    codes set in sk_err.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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