[NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue
I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured
to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values
unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue. Changing it to return
the value will allow the compiler to generate better code
since the value won't have to be memory-backed.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index af8fe26..07ef5d2 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@
do {
if (genl_trylock())
return;
- netlink_run_queue(sk, &qlen, genl_rcv_msg);
+ qlen = netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, genl_rcv_msg);
genl_unlock();
} while (qlen && genl_sock && genl_sock->sk_receive_queue.qlen);
}