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Anton Blanchard authored
sendmmsg uses a similar error return strategy as recvmmsg but it turns out to be a confusing way to communicate errors. The current code stores the error code away and returns it on the next sendmmsg call. This means a call with completely valid arguments could get an error from a previous call. Change things so we only return an error if no datagrams could be sent. If less than the requested number of messages were sent, the application must retry starting at the first failed one and if the problem is persistent the error will be returned. This matches the behaviour of other syscalls like read/write - it is not an error if less than the requested number of elements are sent. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [3.0+] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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