Re: [PATCH net-next v9 1/1] binder: report txn errors via generic netlink

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On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 05:26:14PM -0800, Li Li wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 4:44 PM Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > +
> > > +Usage example (user space pseudo code):
> > > +
> > > +::
> > > +
> > > +    // open netlink socket
> > > +    int fd = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_GENERIC);
> > > +
> > > +    // bind netlink socket
> > > +    bind(fd, struct socketaddr);
> > > +
> > > +    // get the family id of the binder genl
> > > +    send(fd, CTRL_CMD_GETFAMILY, CTRL_ATTR_FAMILY_NAME,
> > > +            BINDER_GENL_FAMILY_NAME);
> >
> > ok, what is happening here? this is not a regular send(). Is this
> > somehow an overloaded send()? If so, I had a really hard time trying to
> > figuring that out so might be best to rename this.
> >
> 
> This pseudo code means a few attributes are sent by a single send().

Ok, sorry this broke my brain trying to make sense of the arguments to
send(). You imply that the nlmsghdr, genlmsghdr and so on need to be
populated accordingly with these arguments.




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