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Currently, the -EEXIST return code of ->insert() callbacks is ambiguous: it might indicate that a given element (including intervals) already exists as such, or that the new element would clash with existing ones. If identical elements already exist, the front-end is ignoring this without returning error, in case NLM_F_EXCL is not set. However, if the new element can't be inserted due an overlap, we should report this to the user. To this purpose, allow set back-ends to return -ENOTEMPTY on collision with existing elements, translate that to -EEXIST, and return that to userspace, no matter if NLM_F_EXCL was set. Reported-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.