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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-11-07 02:42:09 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-11-07 04:15:12 -0800
commitc3d8d1e30cace31fed6186a4b8c6b1401836d89c (patch)
tree7122fccf27aa337438123071f3cb07999429de9e /include/linux/netlink.h
parent230140cffa7feae90ad50bf259db1fa07674f3a7 (diff)
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[NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
-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 7c1f3b1d2ee5..d5bfaba595c7 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ 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);