netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] connector: use nlmsg_put() instead of NLMSG

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk
Cc:	zbr@...emap.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] connector: use nlmsg_put() instead of NLMSG_PUT()
 macro.

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:41:24 +0200

> The NLMSG_PUT() macro contains a hidden goto which makes the code hard
> to audit and very error prone.
> 
> While been there also use the inline function nlmsg_data() instead of the
> NLMSG_DATA() macro to do explicit type checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>

Applied, thanks.

I'll work to convert the remaining users, good catch.
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