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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2013-11-19 18:19:37 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-11-20 01:39:06 +0400 |
| commit | 62b68e99faa802352e9cb2ae91adecd8dfddf1b8 (patch) | |
| tree | a76d8342a57b8451bef657919201c76a5333f1f1 /include/net | |
| parent | c2ebb908469d507ff400dad94efc755e6c799672 (diff) | |
| download | linux-62b68e99faa802352e9cb2ae91adecd8dfddf1b8.tar.xz | |
genetlink: add and use genl_set_err()
Add a static inline to generic netlink to wrap netlink_set_err()
to make it easier to use here - use it in openvswitch (the only
generic netlink user of netlink_set_err()).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index d8a8b1fd96c4..11ac77f6180c 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -351,5 +351,19 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *genlmsg_new(size_t payload, gfp_t flags) return nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(payload), flags); } +/** + * genl_set_err - report error to genetlink broadcast listeners + * @net: the network namespace to report the error to + * @portid: the PORTID of a process that we want to skip (if any) + * @group: the broadcast group that will notice the error + * @code: error code, must be negative (as usual in kernelspace) + * + * This function returns the number of broadcast listeners that have set the + * NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS socket option. + */ +static inline int genl_set_err(struct net *net, u32 portid, u32 group, int code) +{ + return netlink_set_err(net->genl_sock, portid, group, code); +} #endif /* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */ |