Commit 3dabc715 authored by Thomas Graf's avatar Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller
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[GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages 



Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent cfb6eeb4

include/net/genetlink.h

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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

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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;

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