Commit 3dabc715 authored Nov 14, 2006 by Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller Dec 02, 2006

[GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages



Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent cfb6eeb4

include/net/genetlink.h

+11 −0

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		@@ -187,4 +187,15 @@ static inline int genlmsg_total_size(int payload)
		return NLMSG_ALIGN(genlmsg_msg_size(payload));
		}

		/**
		* genlmsg_new - Allocate a new generic netlink message
		* @payload: size of the message payload
		* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
		*/
		static inline struct sk_buff *genlmsg_new(size_t payload, gfp_t flags)
		{
		return nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(payload), flags);
		}


		#endif /* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */

kernel/taskstats.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff *skbp,
		/*
		* If new attributes are added, please revisit this allocation
		*/
		skb = nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(size), GFP_KERNEL);
		skb = genlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
		if (!skb)
		return -ENOMEM;