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<title>linux-stable.git/net/nfc, branch v4.12.2</title>
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<title>Merge tag 'nfc-next-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/nfc-next</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T19:29:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2017-04-21T19:29:40+00:00</published>
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Samuel Ortiz says:

====================
NFC 4.12 pull request

This is the NFC pull request for 4.12. We have:

- Improvements for the pn533 command queue handling and device
  registration order.
- Removal of platform data for the pn544 and st21nfca drivers.
- Additional device tree options to support more trf7970a hardware options.
- Support for Sony's RC-S380P through the port100 driver.
- Removal of the obsolte nfcwilink driver.
- Headers inclusion cleanups (miscdevice.h, unaligned.h) for many drivers.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Samuel Ortiz says:

====================
NFC 4.12 pull request

This is the NFC pull request for 4.12. We have:

- Improvements for the pn533 command queue handling and device
  registration order.
- Removal of platform data for the pn544 and st21nfca drivers.
- Additional device tree options to support more trf7970a hardware options.
- Support for Sony's RC-S380P through the port100 driver.
- Removal of the obsolte nfcwilink driver.
- Headers inclusion cleanups (miscdevice.h, unaligned.h) for many drivers.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: pass extended ACK struct where available</title>
<updated>2017-04-13T17:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T12:34:08+00:00</published>
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This is an add-on to the previous patch that passes the extended ACK
structure where it's already available by existing genl_info or extack
function arguments.

This was done with this spatch (with some manual adjustment of
indentation):

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, info;
@@
fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) {
...
-nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, info-&gt;extack)
...
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, info;
@@
fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, info-&gt;extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nla_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
...
-nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack)
...
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nlmsg_validate(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nlmsg_validate(A, B, C, D, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_validate(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nla_validate(A, B, C, D, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_validate_nested(A, B, C, NULL)
+nla_validate_nested(A, B, C, extack)
...&gt;
}

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This is an add-on to the previous patch that passes the extended ACK
structure where it's already available by existing genl_info or extack
function arguments.

This was done with this spatch (with some manual adjustment of
indentation):

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, info;
@@
fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) {
...
-nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, info-&gt;extack)
...
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, info;
@@
fn(..., struct genl_info *info, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, info-&gt;extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nla_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D, E;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
...
-nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, NULL)
+nlmsg_parse(A, B, C, D, E, extack)
...
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nla_parse_nested(A, B, C, D, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nlmsg_validate(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nlmsg_validate(A, B, C, D, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C, D;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_validate(A, B, C, D, NULL)
+nla_validate(A, B, C, D, extack)
...&gt;
}

@@
expression A, B, C;
identifier fn, extack;
@@
fn(..., struct netlink_ext_ack *extack, ...) {
&lt;...
-nla_validate_nested(A, B, C, NULL)
+nla_validate_nested(A, B, C, extack)
...&gt;
}

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions</title>
<updated>2017-04-13T17:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T12:34:07+00:00</published>
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Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
(except for some in the core.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
(except for some in the core.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFC: netlink: Use error code from nfc_activate_target()</title>
<updated>2017-04-05T08:15:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-22T19:20:58+00:00</published>
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It looks like a typo to assign a return code to a variable which is not
used. Found due to a compiler warning:

net/nfc/netlink.c: In function ‘nfc_genl_activate_target’:
net/nfc/netlink.c:903:6: warning: variable ‘rc’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  int rc;
        ^~

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
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It looks like a typo to assign a return code to a variable which is not
used. Found due to a compiler warning:

net/nfc/netlink.c: In function ‘nfc_genl_activate_target’:
net/nfc/netlink.c:903:6: warning: variable ‘rc’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  int rc;
        ^~

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfc: Send same info for both of NFC_CMD_GET_DEVICE and NFC_EVENT_DEVICE_ADDED</title>
<updated>2017-04-01T21:04:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>OGAWA Hirofumi</name>
<email>hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-04T01:15:55+00:00</published>
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Now, NFC_EVENT_DEVICE_ADDED doesn't send NFC_ATTR_RF_MODE. But
NFC_CMD_GET_DEVICE send.

To get NFC_ATTR_RF_MODE, we have to call NFC_CMD_GET_DEVICE just for
NFC_ATTR_RF_MODE when get NFC_EVENT_DEVICE_ADDED.

This fixes those inconsistent.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Now, NFC_EVENT_DEVICE_ADDED doesn't send NFC_ATTR_RF_MODE. But
NFC_CMD_GET_DEVICE send.

To get NFC_ATTR_RF_MODE, we have to call NFC_CMD_GET_DEVICE just for
NFC_ATTR_RF_MODE when get NFC_EVENT_DEVICE_ADDED.

This fixes those inconsistent.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz &lt;sameo@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets</title>
<updated>2017-03-10T02:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-09T08:09:05+00:00</published>
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Lockdep issues a circular dependency warning when AFS issues an operation
through AF_RXRPC from a context in which the VFS/VM holds the mmap_sem.

The theory lockdep comes up with is as follows:

 (1) If the pagefault handler decides it needs to read pages from AFS, it
     calls AFS with mmap_sem held and AFS begins an AF_RXRPC call, but
     creating a call requires the socket lock:

	mmap_sem must be taken before sk_lock-AF_RXRPC

 (2) afs_open_socket() opens an AF_RXRPC socket and binds it.  rxrpc_bind()
     binds the underlying UDP socket whilst holding its socket lock.
     inet_bind() takes its own socket lock:

	sk_lock-AF_RXRPC must be taken before sk_lock-AF_INET

 (3) Reading from a TCP socket into a userspace buffer might cause a fault
     and thus cause the kernel to take the mmap_sem, but the TCP socket is
     locked whilst doing this:

	sk_lock-AF_INET must be taken before mmap_sem

However, lockdep's theory is wrong in this instance because it deals only
with lock classes and not individual locks.  The AF_INET lock in (2) isn't
really equivalent to the AF_INET lock in (3) as the former deals with a
socket entirely internal to the kernel that never sees userspace.  This is
a limitation in the design of lockdep.

Fix the general case by:

 (1) Double up all the locking keys used in sockets so that one set are
     used if the socket is created by userspace and the other set is used
     if the socket is created by the kernel.

 (2) Store the kern parameter passed to sk_alloc() in a variable in the
     sock struct (sk_kern_sock).  This informs sock_lock_init(),
     sock_init_data() and sk_clone_lock() as to the lock keys to be used.

     Note that the child created by sk_clone_lock() inherits the parent's
     kern setting.

 (3) Add a 'kern' parameter to -&gt;accept() that is analogous to the one
     passed in to -&gt;create() that distinguishes whether kernel_accept() or
     sys_accept4() was the caller and can be passed to sk_alloc().

     Note that a lot of accept functions merely dequeue an already
     allocated socket.  I haven't touched these as the new socket already
     exists before we get the parameter.

     Note also that there are a couple of places where I've made the accepted
     socket unconditionally kernel-based:

	irda_accept()
	rds_rcp_accept_one()
	tcp_accept_from_sock()

     because they follow a sock_create_kern() and accept off of that.

Whilst creating this, I noticed that lustre and ocfs don't create sockets
through sock_create_kern() and thus they aren't marked as for-kernel,
though they appear to be internal.  I wonder if these should do that so
that they use the new set of lock keys.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lockdep issues a circular dependency warning when AFS issues an operation
through AF_RXRPC from a context in which the VFS/VM holds the mmap_sem.

The theory lockdep comes up with is as follows:

 (1) If the pagefault handler decides it needs to read pages from AFS, it
     calls AFS with mmap_sem held and AFS begins an AF_RXRPC call, but
     creating a call requires the socket lock:

	mmap_sem must be taken before sk_lock-AF_RXRPC

 (2) afs_open_socket() opens an AF_RXRPC socket and binds it.  rxrpc_bind()
     binds the underlying UDP socket whilst holding its socket lock.
     inet_bind() takes its own socket lock:

	sk_lock-AF_RXRPC must be taken before sk_lock-AF_INET

 (3) Reading from a TCP socket into a userspace buffer might cause a fault
     and thus cause the kernel to take the mmap_sem, but the TCP socket is
     locked whilst doing this:

	sk_lock-AF_INET must be taken before mmap_sem

However, lockdep's theory is wrong in this instance because it deals only
with lock classes and not individual locks.  The AF_INET lock in (2) isn't
really equivalent to the AF_INET lock in (3) as the former deals with a
socket entirely internal to the kernel that never sees userspace.  This is
a limitation in the design of lockdep.

Fix the general case by:

 (1) Double up all the locking keys used in sockets so that one set are
     used if the socket is created by userspace and the other set is used
     if the socket is created by the kernel.

 (2) Store the kern parameter passed to sk_alloc() in a variable in the
     sock struct (sk_kern_sock).  This informs sock_lock_init(),
     sock_init_data() and sk_clone_lock() as to the lock keys to be used.

     Note that the child created by sk_clone_lock() inherits the parent's
     kern setting.

 (3) Add a 'kern' parameter to -&gt;accept() that is analogous to the one
     passed in to -&gt;create() that distinguishes whether kernel_accept() or
     sys_accept4() was the caller and can be passed to sk_alloc().

     Note that a lot of accept functions merely dequeue an already
     allocated socket.  I haven't touched these as the new socket already
     exists before we get the parameter.

     Note also that there are a couple of places where I've made the accepted
     socket unconditionally kernel-based:

	irda_accept()
	rds_rcp_accept_one()
	tcp_accept_from_sock()

     because they follow a sock_create_kern() and accept off of that.

Whilst creating this, I noticed that lustre and ocfs don't create sockets
through sock_create_kern() and thus they aren't marked as for-kernel,
though they appear to be internal.  I wonder if these should do that so
that they use the new set of lock keys.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare to move signal wakeup &amp; sigpending methods from &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; into &lt;linux/sched/signal.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T18:15:33+00:00</published>
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Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix up affected files that include this signal functionality via sched.h.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: mark families as __ro_after_init</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-24T12:40:05+00:00</published>
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Now genl_register_family() is the only thing (other than the
users themselves, perhaps, but I didn't find any doing that)
writing to the family struct.

In all families that I found, genl_register_family() is only
called from __init functions (some indirectly, in which case
I've add __init annotations to clarifly things), so all can
actually be marked __ro_after_init.

This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Now genl_register_family() is the only thing (other than the
users themselves, perhaps, but I didn't find any doing that)
writing to the family struct.

In all families that I found, genl_register_family() is only
called from __init functions (some indirectly, in which case
I've add __init annotations to clarifly things), so all can
actually be marked __ro_after_init.

This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: statically initialize families</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-24T12:40:03+00:00</published>
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Instead of providing macros/inline functions to initialize
the families, make all users initialize them statically and
get rid of the macros.

This reduces the kernel code size by about 1.6k on x86-64
(with allyesconfig).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Instead of providing macros/inline functions to initialize
the families, make all users initialize them statically and
get rid of the macros.

This reduces the kernel code size by about 1.6k on x86-64
(with allyesconfig).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs</title>
<updated>2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00</updated>
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<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2016-10-24T12:40:02+00:00</published>
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Static family IDs have never really been used, the only
use case was the workaround I introduced for those users
that assumed their family ID was also their multicast
group ID.

Additionally, because static family IDs would never be
reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively
low ID would only work for built-in families that can be
registered immediately after generic netlink is started,
which is basically only the control family (apart from
the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so
it would reserve those IDs)

Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and
luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move
those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get
rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Static family IDs have never really been used, the only
use case was the workaround I introduced for those users
that assumed their family ID was also their multicast
group ID.

Additionally, because static family IDs would never be
reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively
low ID would only work for built-in families that can be
registered immediately after generic netlink is started,
which is basically only the control family (apart from
the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so
it would reserve those IDs)

Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and
luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move
those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get
rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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