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-rw-r--r--net/key/af_key.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/key/af_key.c b/net/key/af_key.c
index 11e1a3a3e442..fb16d7c4e1b8 100644
--- a/net/key/af_key.c
+++ b/net/key/af_key.c
@@ -2826,10 +2826,12 @@ static int pfkey_process(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, const struct sadb
void *ext_hdrs[SADB_EXT_MAX];
int err;
- err = pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL,
- BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk));
- if (err)
- return err;
+ /* Non-zero return value of pfkey_broadcast() does not always signal
+ * an error and even on an actual error we may still want to process
+ * the message so rather ignore the return value.
+ */
+ pfkey_broadcast(skb_clone(skb, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL,
+ BROADCAST_PROMISC_ONLY, NULL, sock_net(sk));
memset(ext_hdrs, 0, sizeof(ext_hdrs));
err = parse_exthdrs(skb, hdr, ext_hdrs);