This is an update for 460c03f3f3 ("iplink: double the buffer size also in
iplink_get()"). After update, we will not need to double the buffer size
every time when VFs number increased.
With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, &req.n, NULL, 0), we can simply remove the
length parameter.
With call like rtnl_talk(&rth, nlh, nlh, sizeof(req), I add a new variable
answer to avoid overwrite data in nlh, because it may has more info after
nlh. also this will avoid nlh buffer not enough issue.
We need to free answer after using.
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Currently, the `ip ila` command tries to initialize a genl context
even when we just want to see the help for the command, which doesn't
require to talk to the kernel at all.
Delay genl initialization, which can fail if the module isn't loaded,
until the point where we will actually need it.
Fixes: ec71cae0bb ("ila: Support for configuring ila to use netfilter hook")
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
All users of genl have the same code to open a genl socket and resolve
the family for their specific protocol. Introduce a helper to initialize
the handle, and use it in all the genl code.
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
