nefilter: nfnetlink: add nfnetlink_set_err and use it in ctnetlink

This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink
broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the
message building.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h
index 7d8e0455ccac..135e5cfe68a2 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ extern int nfnetlink_subsys_unregister(const struct nfnetlink_subsystem *n);
 extern int nfnetlink_has_listeners(unsigned int group);
 extern int nfnetlink_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, unsigned group, 
                           int echo);
+extern void nfnetlink_set_err(u32 pid, u32 group, int error);
 extern int nfnetlink_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u_int32_t pid, int flags);
 
 extern void nfnl_lock(void);