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genetlink: remove userhdr from struct genl_info

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Only three families use info->userhdr today and going forward
we discourage using fixed headers in new families.
So having the pointer to user header in struct genl_info
is an overkill. Compute the header pointer at runtime.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814214723.2924989-4-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Jakub Kicinski
2023-08-14 14:47:16 -07:00
parent fde9bd4a4d
commit bffcc6882a
7 changed files with 33 additions and 27 deletions
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@ -943,7 +943,6 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg_doit(const struct genl_family *family,
info.snd_portid = NETLINK_CB(skb).portid;
info.nlhdr = nlh;
info.genlhdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
info.userhdr = nlmsg_data(nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN;
info.attrs = attrbuf;
info.extack = extack;
genl_info_net_set(&info, net);