Patrick McHardy reported a problem where pointers to the
payload of a netlink message as returned by f.e. the
nesting helpers become stale when the payload data
chunk is reallocated.
In order to avoid further problems, the payload chunk is
no longer extended on the fly. Instead the allocation is
made during netlink message object allocation time with
a default size of a page which should be fine for the
majority of all users. Additionally the functions
nlmsg_alloc_size() and nlmsg_set_default_size() have been
added to allocate messages of a particular length and to
modify the default message size.
10-amd64-linux-types.patch from Ubuntu:
- In order to make libnl compilable on amd64 include linux/types.h
rather than defining the types ourselves; necessary as other headers
include that and get different definitions.
-- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:12:08 +0000
This interface was internal so far which required all code defining
caches to be compiled with the sources available.
In order to simplify the interface, the co_msg_parser prototype was
changed to take the struct nl_parser_param directly instead of a
void *. It used to be void * because the co_msg_parser was directly
passed as the NL_CB_VALID callback function.
This interface was internal so far which required all code defining
objects to be compiled with the sources available.
This change exposes struct nl_object_ops which seems safe as it
is not supposed to be embedded in other structures.
Patch contains extensive documentation to help with the creation
of own object implementations.
Thomas Graf