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/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 6ee69c27f806..5b33879c6422 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1106,6 +1106,7 @@ void netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, u32 pid, u32 group, int code)
 
         read_unlock(&nl_table_lock);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_set_err);
 
 /* must be called with netlink table grabbed */
 static void netlink_update_socket_mc(struct netlink_sock *nlk,