genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias

Generic netlink searches for -type- formatted aliases when requesting a module to
fulfill a protocol request (i.e. net-pf-16-proto-16-type-<x>, where x is a type
value).  However generic netlink protocols have no well defined type numbers,
they have string names.  Modify genl_ctrl_getfamily to request an alias in the
format net-pf-16-proto-16-family-<x> instead, where x is a generic string, and
add a macro that builds on the previously added MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME
macro to allow modules to specifify those generic strings.

Note, l2tp previously hacked together an net-pf-16-proto-16-type-l2tp alias
using the MODULE_ALIAS macro, with these updates we can convert that to use the
PROTO_NAME macro.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 8340ace837f2..2cc7c1ee7690 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
                 if (res == NULL) {
                         genl_unlock();
-                        request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-type-%s",
+                        request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-family-%s",
                                        PF_NETLINK, NETLINK_GENERIC, name);
                         genl_lock();
                         res = genl_family_find_byname(name);