3 files changed, 13 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 9eb895c7a2a9..6ee69c27f806 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -950,6 +950,7 @@ struct netlink_broadcast_data {
         u32 pid;
         u32 group;
         int failure;
+        int delivery_failure;
         int congested;
         int delivered;
         gfp_t allocation;
@@ -999,6 +1000,7 @@ static inline int do_one_broadcast(struct sock *sk,
                 p->skb2 = NULL;
         } else if ((val = netlink_broadcast_deliver(sk, p->skb2)) < 0) {
                 netlink_overrun(sk);
+                p->delivery_failure = 1;
         } else {
                 p->congested |= val;
                 p->delivered = 1;
@@ -1025,6 +1027,7 @@ int netlink_broadcast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid,
         info.pid = pid;
         info.group = group;
         info.failure = 0;
+        info.delivery_failure = 0;
         info.congested = 0;
         info.delivered = 0;
         info.allocation = allocation;
@@ -1045,13 +1048,14 @@ int netlink_broadcast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid,
         if (info.skb2)
                 kfree_skb(info.skb2);
 
+        if (info.delivery_failure || info.failure)
+                return -ENOBUFS;
+
         if (info.delivered) {
                 if (info.congested && (allocation & __GFP_WAIT))
                         yield();
                 return 0;
         }
-        if (info.failure)
-                return -ENOBUFS;
         return -ESRCH;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_broadcast);
diff --git a/net/wimax/op-msg.c b/net/wimax/op-msg.c
index cb3b4ad53683..5d149c1b5f0d 100644
--- a/net/wimax/op-msg.c
+++ b/net/wimax/op-msg.c
@@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wimax_msg_len);
  */
 int wimax_msg_send(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-        int result;
         struct device *dev = wimax_dev->net_dev->dev.parent;
         void *msg = skb->data;
         size_t size = skb->len;
@@ -266,11 +265,9 @@ int wimax_msg_send(struct wimax_dev *wimax_dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
         d_printf(1, dev, "CTX: wimax msg, %zu bytes\n", size);
         d_dump(2, dev, msg, size);
-        result = genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, wimax_gnl_mcg.id, GFP_KERNEL);
-        d_printf(1, dev, "CTX: genl multicast result %d\n", result);
-        if (result == -ESRCH)   /* Nobody connected, ignore it */
-                result = 0;     /* btw, the skb is freed already */
-        return result;
+        genlmsg_multicast(skb, 0, wimax_gnl_mcg.id, GFP_KERNEL);
+        d_printf(1, dev, "CTX: genl multicast done\n");
+        return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wimax_msg_send);
 
diff --git a/net/wimax/stack.c b/net/wimax/stack.c
index 3869c0327882..a0ee76b52510 100644
--- a/net/wimax/stack.c
+++ b/net/wimax/stack.c
@@ -163,16 +163,12 @@ int wimax_gnl_re_state_change_send(
         struct device *dev = wimax_dev_to_dev(wimax_dev);
         d_fnstart(3, dev, "(wimax_dev %p report_skb %p)\n",
                   wimax_dev, report_skb);
-        if (report_skb == NULL)
+        if (report_skb == NULL) {
+                result = -ENOMEM;
                 goto out;
-        genlmsg_end(report_skb, header);
-        result = genlmsg_multicast(report_skb, 0, wimax_gnl_mcg.id, GFP_KERNEL);
-        if (result == -ESRCH)   /* Nobody connected, ignore it */
-                result = 0;     /* btw, the skb is freed already */
-        if (result < 0) {
-                dev_err(dev, "RE_STCH: Error sending: %d\n", result);
-                nlmsg_free(report_skb);
         }
+        genlmsg_end(report_skb, header);
+        genlmsg_multicast(report_skb, 0, wimax_gnl_mcg.id, GFP_KERNEL);
 out:
         d_fnend(3, dev, "(wimax_dev %p report_skb %p) = %d\n",
                 wimax_dev, report_skb, result);