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| author |   Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> | 2015-03-29 16:59:25 +0200 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-03-31 13:58:35 -0400 |
| commit | 930345ea630405aa6e6f42efcb149c3f360a6b67 (patch) | |
| tree | c88d0858785c246038fddac3ca51571b371416b0 /include/net/netlink.h | |
| parent | xfrm: simplify xfrm_address_t use (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-930345ea630405aa6e6f42efcb149c3f360a6b67.tar.xz linux-dev-930345ea630405aa6e6f42efcb149c3f360a6b67.zip | |
netlink: implement nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr
IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions
to do that.
For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is
not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is
used to store IPv4 address.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netlink.h | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h index e010ee8da41d..17fc76e5b05e 100644 --- a/include/net/netlink.h +++ b/include/net/netlink.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/netlink.h> #include <linux/jiffies.h> +#include <linux/in6.h> /* ======================================================================== * Netlink Messages and Attributes Interface (As Seen On TV) @@ -105,6 +106,8 @@ * nla_put_string(skb, type, str) add string attribute to skb * nla_put_flag(skb, type) add flag attribute to skb * nla_put_msecs(skb, type, jiffies) add msecs attribute to skb + * nla_put_in_addr(skb, type, addr) add IPv4 address attribute to skb + * nla_put_in6_addr(skb, type, addr) add IPv6 address attribute to skb * * Nested Attributes Construction: * nla_nest_start(skb, type) start a nested attribute @@ -957,6 +960,32 @@ static inline int nla_put_msecs(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype, } /** + * nla_put_in_addr - Add an IPv4 address netlink attribute to a socket + * buffer + * @skb: socket buffer to add attribute to + * @attrtype: attribute type + * @addr: IPv4 address + */ +static inline int nla_put_in_addr(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype, + __be32 addr) +{ + return nla_put_be32(skb, attrtype, addr); +} + +/** + * nla_put_in6_addr - Add an IPv6 address netlink attribute to a socket + * buffer + * @skb: socket buffer to add attribute to + * @attrtype: attribute type + * @addr: IPv6 address + */ +static inline int nla_put_in6_addr(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype, + const struct in6_addr *addr) +{ + return nla_put(skb, attrtype, sizeof(*addr), addr); +} + +/** * nla_get_u32 - return payload of u32 attribute * @nla: u32 netlink attribute */ |