net: l2tp: do not propagate multicast notification errors

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The tunnel create, tunnel modify, session create, and session modify
netlink handlers send multicast notifications through helpers that can fail
while allocating or encoding a message, or while multicasting it.

For tunnel and session create/modify, a notification is sent after the live
operation has completed. Returning a best-effort notification error as the
command result can therefore report failure for an operation that already
committed and can cause callers to retry and accumulate live objects.

Keep sending notifications for listener visibility, but do not propagate
their best-effort status as the command result. This also keeps the tunnel
modify command consistent with the other notification-only paths.

Fixes: 33f72e6f0c ("l2tp : multicast notification to the registered listeners")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Zihan Xi <zihanx@nebusec.ai>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/54f48e812ca0424c47ffdb9a8182180921f7e6b2.1787247008.git.zihanx@nebusec.ai
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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