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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-08-07 22:48:07 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-08-07 22:48:07 -0700
commit6602a4baf4d1a73cc4685a39ef859e1c5ddf654c (patch)
treed25eac2abeb52608af77e55b1acd56c8904aecea /include/linux/netlink.h
parentdd23198e58cd35259dd09e8892bbdb90f1d57748 (diff)
net: Make userland include of netlink.h more sane.
Currently userland will barf when including linux/netlink.h unless it precisely includes sys/socket.h first. The issue is where the definition of "sa_family_t" comes from. We've been back and forth on how to fix this issue in the past, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/622621 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/143380 Ben Hutchings suggested we take a hint from how we handle the sockaddr_storage type. First we define a "__kernel_sa_family_t" to linux/socket.h that is always defined. Then if __KERNEL__ is defined, we also define "sa_family_t" as equal to "__kernel_sa_family_t". Then in places like linux/netlink.h we use __kernel_sa_family_t in user visible datastructures. Reported-by: Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 2e17c5dbdcb8..180540a84d37 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
#define MAX_LINKS 32
struct sockaddr_nl {
- sa_family_t nl_family; /* AF_NETLINK */
+ __kernel_sa_family_t nl_family; /* AF_NETLINK */
unsigned short nl_pad; /* zero */
__u32 nl_pid; /* port ID */
__u32 nl_groups; /* multicast groups mask */