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* [IPROUTE PATCH] libnetlink: Use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg in rtnl_wilddump_req_filter
@ 2013-04-25 22:07 Alexander Duyck
  2013-04-25 23:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Duyck @ 2013-04-25 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: shemminger; +Cc: netdev, Or Gerlitz, jeffrey.t.kirsher

This change corrects a kernel incompatibility that was resulting in the
ext_filter_mask not being correctly discovered by the kernel as it is buried
somewhere in the ifinfomsg.

Reported-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
---
 lib/libnetlink.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libnetlink.c b/lib/libnetlink.c
index 04201cd..b17e1aa 100644
--- a/lib/libnetlink.c
+++ b/lib/libnetlink.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int rtnl_wilddump_req_filter(struct rtnl_handle *rth, int family, int type,
 {
 	struct {
 		struct nlmsghdr nlh;
-		struct rtgenmsg g;
+		struct ifinfomsg ifm;
 		/* attribute has to be NLMSG aligned */
 		struct rtattr ext_req __attribute__ ((aligned(NLMSG_ALIGNTO)));
 		__u32 ext_filter_mask;
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ int rtnl_wilddump_req_filter(struct rtnl_handle *rth, int family, int type,
 	req.nlh.nlmsg_flags = NLM_F_DUMP|NLM_F_REQUEST;
 	req.nlh.nlmsg_pid = 0;
 	req.nlh.nlmsg_seq = rth->dump = ++rth->seq;
-	req.g.rtgen_family = family;
+	req.ifm.ifi_family = family;
 
 	req.ext_req.rta_type = IFLA_EXT_MASK;
 	req.ext_req.rta_len = RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(__u32));

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2013-04-25 22:07 [IPROUTE PATCH] libnetlink: Use ifinfomsg instead of rtgenmsg in rtnl_wilddump_req_filter Alexander Duyck
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2013-04-25 23:22   ` David Miller
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