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>
This commit is contained in:
David S. Miller
2011-08-07 22:48:07 -07:00
parent dd23198e58
commit 6602a4baf4
2 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -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 */