[GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messages

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index b619314218a6..2010465fa7d4 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -187,4 +187,15 @@ static inline int genlmsg_total_size(int payload)
         return NLMSG_ALIGN(genlmsg_msg_size(payload));
 }
 
+/**
+ * genlmsg_new - Allocate a new generic netlink message
+ * @payload: size of the message payload
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+static inline struct sk_buff *genlmsg_new(size_t payload, gfp_t flags)
+{
+        return nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(payload), flags);
+}
+
+
 #endif  /* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */