From: Thomas Graf Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:44:52 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc1~34^2~40^2~367 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3dabc7157859e706770c825aa229f8943db4e0e1;p=linux-2.6 [GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index b619314218..2010465fa7 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -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 */ diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c index 4f3f0e48c8..faa5239813 100644 --- a/kernel/taskstats.c +++ b/kernel/taskstats.c @@ -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;