On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:06:10AM +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>
> This is the continuation (series #3) of the work done to align netlink
> attributes when these attributes contain some 64-bit fields.
>
> It's the last patchset from what I've seen.
>
> The last user of nla_put_u64() is block/drbd. This module does not use
> standard netlink API (see all the stuff in include/linux/genl_magic_struct.h
> and include/linux/genl_magic_func.h). I didn't modify it because it's seems
> hard to do it whithout testing and fully understanding the context
Something like this should just work.
diff --git a/include/linux/genl_magic_struct.h
b/include/linux/genl_magic_struct.h
index eecd19b..5715dac 100644
--- a/include/linux/genl_magic_struct.h
+++ b/include/linux/genl_magic_struct.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ extern void CONCAT_(GENL_MAGIC_FAMILY,
_genl_unregister)(void);
nla_get_u32, nla_put_u32, true)
#define __u64_field(attr_nr, attr_flag, name) \
__field(attr_nr, attr_flag, name, NLA_U64, __u64, \
- nla_get_u64, nla_put_u64, false)
+ nla_get_u64, nla_put_u64_64bit_unspec, false)
#define __str_field(attr_nr, attr_flag, name, maxlen) \
__array(attr_nr, attr_flag, name, NLA_NUL_STRING, char, maxlen, \
nla_strlcpy, nla_put, false)
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index e589cb3..38ba770 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -871,6 +871,18 @@ static inline int nla_put_u64_64bit(struct sk_buff *skb,
int attrtype,
}
/**
+ * nla_put_u64_64bit_unspec - nla_put_u64_64bit() with padattr = 0
+ * @skb: socket buffer to add attribute to
+ * @attrtype: attribute type
+ * @value: numeric value
+ */
+static inline int nla_put_u64_64bit_unspec(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype,
+ u64 value)
+{
+ return nla_put_64bit(skb, attrtype, sizeof(u64), &value, NLA_UNSPEC);
+}
+
+/**
* nla_put_be64 - Add a __be64 netlink attribute to a socket buffer and align
it
* @skb: socket buffer to add attribute to
* @attrtype: attribute type
> (for
> example, why include/linux/drbd_genl.h is not part of uapi?).
> Any thoughts?
probably should be.
Thanks,
Lars
