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[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>
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Thomas Graf 2006-11-14 19:44:52 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent cfb6eeb4c8
commit 3dabc71578
2 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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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 */

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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;