Merge branch 'possible_net_t'

Eric W. Biederman says:

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Introduce possible_net_t

The current usage of write_pnet and read_pnet is a little laborious and
error prone as you only notice if you failed to include them if are
compiling with network namespaces enabled.

possible_net_t remedies that by using a type that is 0 bytes when
network namespaces are disabled and can only be read and written to with
read_pnet and write_pnet.

Aka less work and safer for the same effect.

I kill hold_net and release_net first as are they are haven't been used
since 2008 and are noise at the points where write_pnet and read_pnet
are used.

I have folded in Eric Dumazets suggestions to improve the killing of
hold_net and release net.  And respon.  I had to respin anyway as
there was enough changes elsewhere in the tree the previous version
of these patches did not quite apply cleanly.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 0574abd3db86..a9af1cc8c1bc 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ struct genl_info {
 	struct genlmsghdr *	genlhdr;
 	void *			userhdr;
 	struct nlattr **	attrs;
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
-	struct net *		_net;
-#endif
+	possible_net_t		_net;
 	void *			user_ptr[2];
 	struct sock *		dst_sk;
 };