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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-12-17 15:16:46 +0100
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-12-17 15:16:46 +0100
commit275c8b93288ef0c2281e414e069ea8ed4bad03f7 (patch)
treedf906ef901d7719d66944921c7436f5db718dc2f /net/socket.c
parent909ea96468096b07fbb41aaf69be060d92bd9271 (diff)
parent8f1d97c79eb65de1d05799d6b81d79cd94169114 (diff)
Merge branch 'this_cpu_ops' into for-2.6.38
Diffstat (limited to 'net/socket.c')
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 3ca2fd9e3720..088fb3fd45e0 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -732,6 +732,21 @@ static int sock_recvmsg_nosec(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
return ret;
}
+/**
+ * kernel_recvmsg - Receive a message from a socket (kernel space)
+ * @sock: The socket to receive the message from
+ * @msg: Received message
+ * @vec: Input s/g array for message data
+ * @num: Size of input s/g array
+ * @size: Number of bytes to read
+ * @flags: Message flags (MSG_DONTWAIT, etc...)
+ *
+ * On return the msg structure contains the scatter/gather array passed in the
+ * vec argument. The array is modified so that it consists of the unfilled
+ * portion of the original array.
+ *
+ * The returned value is the total number of bytes received, or an error.
+ */
int kernel_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
struct kvec *vec, size_t num, size_t size, int flags)
{