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netlink: export policy in extended ACK

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Add a new attribute NLMSGERR_ATTR_POLICY to the extended ACK
to advertise the policy, e.g. if an attribute was out of range,
you'll know the range that's permissible.

Add new NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR_POL() and NL_SET_ERR_MSG_ATTR_POL()
macros to set this, since realistically it's only useful to do
this when the bad attribute (offset) is also returned.

Use it in lib/nlattr.c which practically does all the policy
validation.

v2:
 - add and use netlink_policy_dump_attr_size_estimate()
v3:
 - remove redundant break
v4:
 - really remove redundant break ... sorry

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Johannes Berg
2020-10-08 12:45:17 +02:00
committed by Jakub Kicinski
parent d2681e93b0
commit 44f3625bc6
6 changed files with 111 additions and 28 deletions
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@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ struct nlmsgerr {
* @NLMSGERR_ATTR_COOKIE: arbitrary subsystem specific cookie to
* be used - in the success case - to identify a created
* object or operation or similar (binary)
* @NLMSGERR_ATTR_POLICY: policy for a rejected attribute
* @__NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX: number of attributes
* @NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number
*/
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@ enum nlmsgerr_attrs {
NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG,
NLMSGERR_ATTR_OFFS,
NLMSGERR_ATTR_COOKIE,
NLMSGERR_ATTR_POLICY,
__NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX,
NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX = __NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX - 1