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[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: utilities for genetlink usage
authorBalbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:24:39 +0000 (00:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:53:56 +0000 (21:53 -0700)
Two utilities for simplifying usage of NETLINK_GENERIC interface.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/net/genetlink.h

index 805de50df00da8255f02edc3757e440654d16762..8c2287264266776771e08a2fa4387c5b5542112c 100644 (file)
@@ -150,4 +150,24 @@ static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid)
        return nlmsg_unicast(genl_sock, skb, pid);
 }
 
+/**
+ * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink messsage header
+ */
+static inline void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+       return ((unsigned char *) gnlh + GENL_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_len - length of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink message header
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_len(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+       struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)((unsigned char *)gnlh -
+                                                       NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+       return (nlh->nlmsg_len - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+}
+
 #endif /* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */