1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 98e313e5e594..325272925d0f 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1565,7 +1565,11 @@ int netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
         netlink_dump(sk);
         sock_put(sk);
-        return 0;
+
+        /* We successfully started a dump, by returning -EINTR we
+         * signal not to send ACK even if it was requested.
+         */
+        return -EINTR;
 }
 
 void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
@@ -1619,17 +1623,21 @@ int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
 
                 /* Only requests are handled by the kernel */
                 if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST))
-                        goto skip;
+                        goto ack;
 
                 /* Skip control messages */
                 if (nlh->nlmsg_type < NLMSG_MIN_TYPE)
-                        goto skip;
+                        goto ack;
 
                 err = cb(skb, nlh);
-skip:
+                if (err == -EINTR)
+                        goto skip;
+
+ack:
                 if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_ACK || err)
                         netlink_ack(skb, nlh, err);
 
+skip:
                 msglen = NLMSG_ALIGN(nlh->nlmsg_len);
                 if (msglen > skb->len)
                         msglen = skb->len;