There are currently two ways to determine whether the netlink socket is a kernel one or a user one. This patch creates a single inline call for this purpose and unifies all the calls in the af_netlink.c
No similar calls are found outside af_netlink.c. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ./net/netlink/af_netlink.c.nlk4 2007-08-26 19:30:38.000000000 +0400 +++ ./net/netlink/af_netlink.c 2007-10-02 12:27:33.000000000 +0400 @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ static inline struct netlink_sock *nlk_s return container_of(sk, struct netlink_sock, sk); } +static inline int netlink_is_kernel(struct sock *sk) +{ + return nlk_sk(sk)->flags & NETLINK_KERNEL_SOCKET; +} + struct nl_pid_hash { struct hlist_head *table; unsigned long rehash_time; @@ -489,7 +494,7 @@ static int netlink_release(struct socket module_put(nlk->module); netlink_table_grab(); - if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_KERNEL_SOCKET) { + if (netlink_is_kernel(sk)) { kfree(nl_table[sk->sk_protocol].listeners); nl_table[sk->sk_protocol].module = NULL; nl_table[sk->sk_protocol].registered = 0; @@ -716,7 +721,7 @@ static struct sock *netlink_getsockbypid /* Don't bother queuing skb if kernel socket has no input function */ nlk = nlk_sk(sock); - if ((nlk->pid == 0 && !nlk->data_ready) || + if ((netlink_is_kernel(sock) && !nlk->data_ready) || (sock->sk_state == NETLINK_CONNECTED && nlk->dst_pid != nlk_sk(ssk)->pid)) { sock_put(sock); @@ -762,7 +767,7 @@ int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, s test_bit(0, &nlk->state)) { DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); if (!timeo) { - if (!ssk || nlk_sk(ssk)->pid == 0) + if (!ssk || netlink_is_kernel(ssk)) netlink_overrun(sk); sock_put(sk); kfree_skb(skb); @@ -861,7 +875,7 @@ int netlink_has_listeners(struct sock *s int res = 0; unsigned long *listeners; - BUG_ON(!(nlk_sk(sk)->flags & NETLINK_KERNEL_SOCKET)); + BUG_ON(!netlink_is_kernel(sk)); rcu_read_lock(); listeners = rcu_dereference(nl_table[sk->sk_protocol].listeners); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html