Re: Sending netlink messages in mac80211 tx handler

[Reiner Herrmann <r_herrma@informatik.uni-kl.de>]

Zhu Yi wrote:
>>         void* hdr;
>>
>>         if(!skb)
>>                 goto out;
>>
>>         hdr = genlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, &nl80211_fam, 0, NL80211_CMD_DISCOSEC);
>>         if(IS_ERR(hdr))
>>                 goto free_skb;
>>
>>         nla_put_u32(skb, NL80211_ATTR_DISCOSEC_HELO, 42);
>>         genlmsg_end(skb, hdr);
>>         genlmsg_unicast(skb, get_daemon_pid());
>>
>> free_skb:
>>         nlmsg_free(skb);
> 
> No need to free on the correct path. The skb is added to the
> receive_queue directly for Rx.
> 
> Thanks,
> -yi
> 

Thank you for your hint! I searched for hours and couldn't
find the problem. It's working great now.

Regards,
  Reiner