netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.
I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.
I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 508c5df..9257537 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@
if (idx < s_idx)
goto cont;
if (rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK,
- NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).pid,
+ NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid,
cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0,
NLM_F_MULTI,
ext_filter_mask) <= 0)
@@ -1899,14 +1899,14 @@
if (nskb == NULL)
return -ENOBUFS;
- err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(nskb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid,
+ err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(nskb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid,
nlh->nlmsg_seq, 0, 0, ext_filter_mask);
if (err < 0) {
/* -EMSGSIZE implies BUG in if_nlmsg_size */
WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
kfree_skb(nskb);
} else
- err = rtnl_unicast(nskb, net, NETLINK_CB(skb).pid);
+ err = rtnl_unicast(nskb, net, NETLINK_CB(skb).portid);
return err;
}
@@ -2180,9 +2180,9 @@
{
struct netdev_hw_addr *ha;
int err;
- u32 pid, seq;
+ u32 portid, seq;
- pid = NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).pid;
+ portid = NETLINK_CB(cb->skb).portid;
seq = cb->nlh->nlmsg_seq;
list_for_each_entry(ha, &list->list, list) {
@@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@
goto skip;
err = nlmsg_populate_fdb_fill(skb, dev, ha->addr,
- pid, seq, 0, NTF_SELF);
+ portid, seq, 0, NTF_SELF);
if (err < 0)
return err;
skip: