route: fix return value of nl_rtgen_request()

According to documentation, nl_rtgen_request() returns 0 on success,
but before it returned the number of bytes sent.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
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Thomas Haller 2014-01-31 14:15:13 +01:00
parent 4c7a3074bb
commit b70174668b

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@ -34,15 +34,20 @@
* Fills out a routing netlink request message and sends it out
* using nl_send_simple().
*
* @return 0 on success or a negative error code.
* @return 0 on success or a negative error code. Due to a bug in
* older versions, this returned the number of bytes sent. So for
* compatibility, treat positive return values as success too.
*/
int nl_rtgen_request(struct nl_sock *sk, int type, int family, int flags)
{
int err;
struct rtgenmsg gmsg = {
.rtgen_family = family,
};
return nl_send_simple(sk, type, flags, &gmsg, sizeof(gmsg));
err = nl_send_simple(sk, type, flags, &gmsg, sizeof(gmsg));
return err >= 0 ? 0 : err;
}
/** @} */