From 3dabc7157859e706770c825aa229f8943db4e0e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:44:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Acked-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/genetlink.h | 11 +++++++++++ kernel/taskstats.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index b619314218a6..2010465fa7d4 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 4f3f0e48c845..faa5239813ce 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;