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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2012-09-07 20:12:54 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-09-10 15:30:41 -0400 |
| commit | 15e473046cb6e5d18a4d0057e61d76315230382b (patch) | |
| tree | 893d2df5d46a6ce156933ac57a1398f0ad22b889 /include/linux/netlink.h | |
| parent | 9f00d9776bc5beb92e8bfc884a7e96ddc5589e2e (diff) | |
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netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.
I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.
I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netlink.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h index cd17dda5a987..73ade5fbc856 100644 --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static inline struct nlmsghdr *nlmsg_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb) struct netlink_skb_parms { struct scm_creds creds; /* Skb credentials */ - __u32 pid; + __u32 portid; __u32 dst_group; struct sock *ssk; }; @@ -205,14 +205,14 @@ extern void __netlink_clear_multicast_users(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group) extern void netlink_clear_multicast_users(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group); extern void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err); extern int netlink_has_listeners(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group); -extern int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 pid, int nonblock); -extern int netlink_broadcast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 pid, +extern int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 portid, int nonblock); +extern int netlink_broadcast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 portid, __u32 group, gfp_t allocation); extern int netlink_broadcast_filtered(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, - __u32 pid, __u32 group, gfp_t allocation, + __u32 portid, __u32 group, gfp_t allocation, int (*filter)(struct sock *dsk, struct sk_buff *skb, void *data), void *filter_data); -extern int netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, __u32 pid, __u32 group, int code); +extern int netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, __u32 portid, __u32 group, int code); extern int netlink_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int netlink_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); @@ -253,12 +253,12 @@ struct netlink_callback { struct netlink_notify { struct net *net; - int pid; + int portid; int protocol; }; struct nlmsghdr * -__nlmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq, int type, int len, int flags); +__nlmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, int type, int len, int flags); struct netlink_dump_control { int (*dump)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *); |