[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, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index 4f3f0e48c845..faa5239813ce 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static int prepare_reply(struct genl_info *info, u8 cmd, struct sk_buff **skbp,
         /*
          * If new attributes are added, please revisit this allocation
          */
-        skb = nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(size), GFP_KERNEL);
+        skb = genlmsg_new(size, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!skb)
                 return -ENOMEM;