netlink: make socket filters work on netlink
authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:46:12 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:46:12 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications.
This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with
messages that are then ignored.

Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter
state machine operations are done as network byte order.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netlink/af_netlink.c

Simple merge