2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
index 57a314b14cf8..ad6e0ba7b38c 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
+++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ Unregisters new callback with connector core.
 
 struct cb_id *id                - unique connector's user identifier.
 
-void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
+int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
 
 Sends message to the specified groups.  It can be safely called from
-any context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure.
+softirq context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure.
+If there are no listeners for given group -ESRCH can be returned.
 
 struct cn_msg *                 - message header(with attached data).
 u32 __group                     - destination group.
diff --git a/drivers/connector/connector.c b/drivers/connector/connector.c
index 505677fb3157..d7125f4d9113 100644
--- a/drivers/connector/connector.c
+++ b/drivers/connector/connector.c
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __group, gfp_t gfp_mask)
                 group = __group;
         }
 
+        if (!netlink_has_listeners(dev->nls, group))
+                return -ESRCH;
+
         size = NLMSG_SPACE(sizeof(*msg) + msg->len);
 
         skb = alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask);
@@ -111,9 +114,7 @@ int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __group, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 
         NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = group;
 
-        netlink_broadcast(dev->nls, skb, 0, group, gfp_mask);
-
-        return 0;
+        return netlink_broadcast(dev->nls, skb, 0, group, gfp_mask);
 
 nlmsg_failure:
         kfree_skb(skb);