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Paul Moore
4fe5d5c07a [Netlink]: add nla_validate_nested()
Add a new function, nla_validate_nested(), to validate nested Netlink
attributes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-25 15:54:03 -07:00
Paul Moore
22acb19a91 [NETLINK]: add nla_for_each_nested() to the interface list
At the top of include/net/netlink.h is a list of Netlink interfaces, however,
the nla_for_each_nested() macro was not listed.  This patch adds this interface
to the list at the top of the header file.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-25 15:53:37 -07:00
Thomas Graf
a5531a5d85 [NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validation
Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL
terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry
a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy.

The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated
is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the
string.

Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary
buffers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:24 -07:00
Johannes Berg
ff5dfe736d [NETLINK]: remove third bogus argument from NLA_PUT_FLAG
This patch removes the 'value' argument from NLA_PUT_FLAG which is
unused anyway. The documentation comment was already correct so it
doesn't need an update :)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:18 -07:00
Thomas Graf
4e902c5741 [IPv4]: FIB configuration using struct fib_config
Introduces struct fib_config replacing the ugly struct kern_rta
prone to ordering issues. Avoids creating faked netlink messages
for auto generated routes or requests via ioctl.

A new interface net/nexthop.h is added to help navigate through
nexthop configuration arrays.

A new struct nl_info will be used to carry the necessary netlink
information to be used for notifications later on.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:55:04 -07:00
Thomas Graf
97676b6b55 [RTNETLINK]: Add rtnetlink notification interface
Adds rtnl_notify() to send rtnetlink notification messages and
rtnl_set_sk_err() to report notification errors as socket
errors in order to indicate the need of a resync due to loss
of events.

nlmsg_report() is added to properly document the meaning of
NLM_F_ECHO.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:50 -07:00
Thomas Graf
d387f6ad10 [NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interface
Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The
message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The
applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast
back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the
multicast to avoid duplicated notifications.

nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to
allow notification in atomic contexts.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:54:49 -07:00
Thomas Graf
fe4944e59c [NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface
Adds:
 nlmsg_get_pos()                 return current position in message
 nlmsg_trim()                    trim part of message
 nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len)     reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr
 nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data)   add attribute w/o hdr
 nla_find_nested()               find attribute in nested attributes

Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:43 -07:00
Thomas Graf
82ace47a72 [NETLINK]: Generic netlink receive queue processor
Introduces netlink_run_queue() to handle the receive queue of
a netlink socket in a generic way. Processes as much as there
was in the queue upon entry and invokes a callback function
for each netlink message found. The callback function may
refuse a message by returning a negative error code but setting
the error pointer to 0 in which case netlink_run_queue() will
return with a qlen != 0.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
bfa83a9e03 [NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface
Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and
attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible
with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety,
this interface features attribute validation capabilities,
simplified message contstruction, and documentation.

The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone
and easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00