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Commit e1fa6d21 authored by Florian Westphal's avatar Florian Westphal Committed by David S. Miller
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rtnetlink: call rtnl_calcit directly



There is only a single place in the kernel that regisers the "calcit"
callback (to determine min allocation for dumps).

This is in rtnetlink.c for PF_UNSPEC RTM_GETLINK.
The function that checks for calcit presence at run time will first check
the requested family (which will always fail for !PF_UNSPEC as no callsite
registers this), then falls back to checking PF_UNSPEC.

Therefore we can just check if type is RTM_GETLINK and then do a direct
call.  Because of fallback to PF_UNSPEC all RTM_GETLINK types used this
regardless of family.

This has the advantage that we don't need to allocate space for
the function pointer for all the other families.

A followup patch will drop the calcit function pointer from the
rtnl_link callback structure.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 078295fb
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