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-rw-r--r--Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c2
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diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
index 16e16d57b9eb..fed225401dd2 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ static int get_family_id(int sd)
 	rc = send_cmd(sd, GENL_ID_CTRL, getpid(), CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY,
 			CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME, (void *)name,
 			strlen(TASKSTATS_GENL_NAME)+1);
+	if (rc < 0)
+		return 0;	/* sendto() failure? */
 
 	rep_len = recv(sd, &ans, sizeof(ans), 0);
 	if (ans.n.nlmsg_type == NLMSG_ERROR ||