Working on change for: genetlink: make policy common to family

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon May 13 23:21:10 CEST 2019


On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 15:24:53 -0500,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 14:52:13 -0500,
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>>Wireguard isn't building on 5.2 right now because of commit:
>>3b0f31f2b8c9fb348e4530b88f6b64f9621f83d6 genetlink: make policy common to family
>>
>>I've got Wireguard building, but need to do basic testing, then add 
>>a kernel version test in and do some other testing. If that all goes 
>>OK I'll submit a signed off patch to the list.
>>
>>It looks to be a very simple change to netlink.c, but I could have 
>>easily missed something subtle.
>
>wg (the config tool) doesn't work with my change, so there probably is 
>more needed than just moving .policy to the family structure in the 
>kernel. I'll continue looking at it, but it might need someone better 
>than me to look at it eventually.

There is also a small chance that there are multiple issues. I may need 
to test before and after the commit I identified to see if this is the 
case.


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