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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-11-13 03:03:00 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-11-16 08:27:38 -0800
commitc6736fd46ba478b59f8293457648432154f0f422 (patch)
treebd9c74b6324f20a8ce43f98e564e09ea75043628 /include
parentbe8962a15857ee7b43bc66f718d7e8987f484fc8 (diff)
Fix netlink timeouts.
[NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts [ Upstream commit: c3d8d1e30cace31fed6186a4b8c6b1401836d89c ] Commit ed6dcf4a in the history.git tree broke netlink_unicast timeouts by moving the schedule_timeout() call to a new function that doesn't propagate the remaining timeout back to the caller. This means on each retry we start with the full timeout again. ipc/mqueue.c seems to actually want to wait indefinitely so this behaviour is retained. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 83d8239f0cc..63af986b337 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ extern int netlink_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
/* finegrained unicast helpers: */
struct sock *netlink_getsockbyfilp(struct file *filp);
int netlink_attachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int nonblock,
- long timeo, struct sock *ssk);
+ long *timeo, struct sock *ssk);
void netlink_detachskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
int netlink_sendskb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int protocol);