Commit 81878d27 authored by Thomas Graf's avatar Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller

[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: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 3dabc715
......@@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
return nlmsg_unicast(genl_sock, skb, pid);
}
/**
* 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
......
......@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static int netlbl_cipsov4_list(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
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;
......
......@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ static int netlbl_mgmt_listdef(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
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 @@ static int netlbl_mgmt_version(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
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;
......
......@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int netlbl_unlabel_list(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
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;
......
......@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
goto errout;
}
err = genlmsg_unicast(msg, info->snd_pid);
err = genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
errout:
return err;
}
......
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