I can't send netlink message via mmaped netlink socket since commit: a8866ff6a5bce7d0ec465a63bc482a85c09b0d39 netlink: make the check for "send from tx_ring" deterministic
msg->msg_iter.type is set to WRITE (1) at SYSCALL_DEFINE6(sendto, ... import_single_range(WRITE, ... iov_iter_init(1, WRITE, ... call path, so that we need to check the type by iter_is_iovec() to accept the WRITE. Signed-off-by: Ken-ichirou MATSUZAWA <cha...@h4.dion.ne.jp> --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 85ccd8b..4444687 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -2456,7 +2456,7 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len) * sendmsg(), but that's what we've got... */ if (netlink_tx_is_mmaped(sk) && - msg->msg_iter.type == ITER_IOVEC && + iter_is_iovec(&msg->msg_iter) && msg->msg_iter.nr_segs == 1 && msg->msg_iter.iov->iov_base == NULL) { err = netlink_mmap_sendmsg(sk, msg, dst_portid, dst_group, -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html