[GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requests
A generic netlink user has no interest in knowing how to
address the source of the original request.
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 2010465..797c18b 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -150,6 +150,16 @@
}
/**
+ * genlmsg_reply - reply to a request
+ * @skb: netlink message to be sent back
+ * @info: receiver information
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
+{
+ return genlmsg_unicast(skb, info->snd_pid);
+}
+
+/**
* gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
* @gnlh: genetlink messsage header
*/
diff --git a/net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c b/net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c
index f1788bd..5262887 100644
--- a/net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c
+++ b/net/netlabel/netlabel_cipso_v4.c
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
- ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
+ ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto list_failure;
diff --git a/net/netlabel/netlabel_mgmt.c b/net/netlabel/netlabel_mgmt.c
index c529622..7846937 100644
--- a/net/netlabel/netlabel_mgmt.c
+++ b/net/netlabel/netlabel_mgmt.c
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
- ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
+ ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto listdef_failure;
return 0;
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
- ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
+ ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto version_failure;
return 0;
diff --git a/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c b/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c
index 219dcca..57dd07b 100644
--- a/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c
+++ b/net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
genlmsg_end(ans_skb, data);
- ret_val = genlmsg_unicast(ans_skb, info->snd_pid);
+ ret_val = genlmsg_reply(ans_skb, info);
if (ret_val != 0)
goto list_failure;
return 0;
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 70d60c8..0249a56 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
goto errout;
}
- err = genlmsg_unicast(msg, info->snd_pid);
+ err = genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
errout:
return err;
}