netlink: Improve returned error codes

[net-next-2.6.git] / net / core / rtnetlink.c

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index cf857c4dc7b12ab6e0ca2d79d17a036844a8eb53..a9a77216310e028c2dfe1d125d2706c21c51630d 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -498,7 +498,8 @@ int rtnetlink_put_metrics(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 *metrics)
        return nla_nest_end(skb, mx);
 
 nla_put_failure:
-       return nla_nest_cancel(skb, mx);
+       nla_nest_cancel(skb, mx);
+       return -EMSGSIZE;
 }
 
 int rtnl_put_cacheinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst, u32 id,