[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "l2tp: Fix sendmsg() return value" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    l2tp: Fix sendmsg() return value

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From c912222348486d13e79a38517f6504725921fb8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault at alphalink.fr>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:07:36 +0200
Subject: l2tp: Fix sendmsg() return value

[ Upstream commit a6f79d0f26704214b5b702bbac525cb72997f984 ]

PPPoL2TP sockets should comply with the standard send*() return values
(i.e. return number of bytes sent instead of 0 upon success).

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault at alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
index 88ba2e4..8b875c29 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static int pppol2tp_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct msgh
 	sock_put(ps->tunnel_sock);
 	sock_put(sk);

-	return error;
+	return total_len;

 error_put_sess_tun:
 	sock_put(ps->tunnel_sock);
--
1.8.1.2