[GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index b619314..2010465 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -187,4 +187,15 @@
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 4f3f0e4..faa5239 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
/*
* 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;