linux_kernel/net/netlink
Johannes Berg 44f3625bc6 netlink: export policy in extended ACK
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>
2020-10-09 20:22:32 -07:00
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af_netlink.c netlink: export policy in extended ACK 2020-10-09 20:22:32 -07:00
af_netlink.h netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumps 2018-10-08 10:39:04 -07:00
diag.c treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
genetlink.c genetlink: allow dumping command-specific policy 2020-10-03 14:18:29 -07:00
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile netlink: add infrastructure to expose policies to userspace 2020-04-30 17:51:42 -07:00
policy.c netlink: export policy in extended ACK 2020-10-09 20:22:32 -07:00