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[NETLINK]: allocate group bitmaps dynamically

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Allow changing the number of groups for a netlink family
after it has been created, use RCU to protect the listeners
bitmap keeping netlink_has_listeners() lock-free.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Johannes Berg
2007-07-18 15:46:06 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent c81de6addb
commit b4ff4f0419
2 changed files with 83 additions and 24 deletions
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@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ extern struct sock *netlink_kernel_create(int unit, unsigned int groups,
void (*input)(struct sock *sk, int len),
struct mutex *cb_mutex,
struct module *module);
extern int netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups);
extern void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err);
extern int netlink_has_listeners(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group);
extern int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 pid, int nonblock);