can that be correct?  That changes the value of the
pointer.  NLMSG_DATA adds aligned sizeof(struct nlmsghdr).

I suspect lxc is doing the right thing in practice, but could
do some sort of casting somewhere to tell coverity to lighten
up.  But I haven't yet figured out what that is.

Quoting Dwight Engen (dwight.en...@oracle.com):
> Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.en...@oracle.com>
> ---
>  src/lxc/genl.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/lxc/genl.c b/src/lxc/genl.c
> index 873b084..8fcb6b7 100644
> --- a/src/lxc/genl.c
> +++ b/src/lxc/genl.c
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static int genetlink_resolve_family(const char *family)
>       request->nlmsghdr.nlmsg_flags = NLM_F_REQUEST | NLM_F_ACK;
>          request->nlmsghdr.nlmsg_type = GENL_ID_CTRL;
>  
> -     genlmsghdr = NLMSG_DATA(&request->nlmsghdr);
> +     genlmsghdr = &request->genlmsghdr;
>          genlmsghdr->cmd = CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY;
>  
>       ret = netlink_open(&handler, NETLINK_GENERIC);
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static int genetlink_resolve_family(const char *family)
>       if (ret < 0)
>               goto out_close;
>  
> -     genlmsghdr = NLMSG_DATA(&reply->nlmsghdr);
> +     genlmsghdr = &reply->genlmsghdr;
>       len = reply->nlmsghdr.nlmsg_len;
>  
>       ret = -ENOMSG;
> -- 
> 1.8.1.4
> 
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