From a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:40:02 +0200 Subject: genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs Static family IDs have never really been used, the only use case was the workaround I introduced for those users that assumed their family ID was also their multicast group ID. Additionally, because static family IDs would never be reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively low ID would only work for built-in families that can be registered immediately after generic netlink is started, which is basically only the control family (apart from the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so it would reserve those IDs) Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- fs/quota/netlink.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/quota/netlink.c') diff --git a/fs/quota/netlink.c b/fs/quota/netlink.c index 8b252673d454..3965a5cdfaa2 100644 --- a/fs/quota/netlink.c +++ b/fs/quota/netlink.c @@ -13,13 +13,6 @@ static const struct genl_multicast_group quota_mcgrps[] = { /* Netlink family structure for quota */ static struct genl_family quota_genl_family = { - /* - * Needed due to multicast group ID abuse - old code assumed - * the family ID was also a valid multicast group ID (which - * isn't true) and userspace might thus rely on it. Assign a - * static ID for this group to make dealing with that easier. - */ - .id = GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT, .hdrsize = 0, .name = "VFS_DQUOT", .version = 1, -- cgit v1.2.3