[PATCH v3 1/6] genetlink: Add genl_notify()
From: Jesse Gross <hidden>
Date: 2011-12-03 18:38:46
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Pravin B Shelar <redacted> Open vSwitch uses Generic Netlink interface for communication between userspace and kernel module. genl_notify() is used for sending notification back to userspace. genl_notify() is analogous to rtnl_notify() but uses genl_sock instead of rtnl. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <redacted> --- v2/v3: Unchanged. --- include/net/genetlink.h | 2 ++ net/netlink/genetlink.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 82d8d09..7db3299 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h@@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ extern int genl_register_mc_group(struct genl_family *family, struct genl_multicast_group *grp); extern void genl_unregister_mc_group(struct genl_family *family, struct genl_multicast_group *grp); +extern void genl_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net *net, u32 pid, + u32 group, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, gfp_t flags); /** * genlmsg_put - Add generic netlink header to netlink message
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 482fa57..8a36599 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c@@ -946,3 +946,16 @@ int genlmsg_multicast_allns(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, unsigned int group, return genlmsg_mcast(skb, pid, group, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(genlmsg_multicast_allns); + +void genl_notify(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net *net, u32 pid, u32 group, + struct nlmsghdr *nlh, gfp_t flags) +{ + struct sock *sk = net->genl_sock; + int report = 0; + + if (nlh) + report = nlmsg_report(nlh); + + nlmsg_notify(sk, skb, pid, group, report, flags); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_notify);
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