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[GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requests 

A generic netlink user has no interest in knowing how to
address the source of the original request.

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>
This commit is contained in:
Thomas Graf 2006-11-14 19:45:27 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 3dabc71578
commit 81878d27fd
5 changed files with 15 additions and 5 deletions
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10
include/net/genetlink.h
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@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
return nlmsg_unicast(genl_sock, skb, pid);
}
/**
* genlmsg_reply - reply to a request
* @skb: netlink message to be sent back
* @info: receiver information
*/
static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
{
return genlmsg_unicast(skb, info->snd_pid);
}
/**
* gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
* @gnlh: genetlink messsage header

2
net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c
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@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ list_start:
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto list_failure;

4
net/netlabel/netlabel_mgmt.c
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@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ static int netlbl_mgmt_listdef(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto listdef_failure;
return 0;
@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static int netlbl_mgmt_version(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto version_failure;
return 0;

2
net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c
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@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int netlbl_unlabel_list(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto list_failure;
return 0;

2
net/netlink/genetlink.c
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@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
goto errout;
}
err = genlmsg_unicast(msg, info->snd_pid);
err = genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
errout:
return err;
}