tools/bpf: add more netlink functionalities in lib/bpf

This patch added a few netlink attribute parsing functions
and the netlink API functions to query networking links, tc classes,
tc qdiscs and tc filters. For example, the following API is
to get networking links:
  int nl_get_link(int sock, unsigned int nl_pid,
                  dump_nlmsg_t dump_link_nlmsg,
                  void *cookie);

Note that when the API is called, the user also provided a
callback function with the following signature:
  int (*dump_nlmsg_t)(void *cookie, void *msg, struct nlattr **tb);

The "cookie" is the parameter the user passed to the API and will
be available for the callback function.
The "msg" is the information about the result, e.g., ifinfomsg or
tcmsg. The "tb" is the parsed netlink attributes.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.h b/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.h
index 931a71f68f93..a6e2396bce7c 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/nlattr.h
@@ -67,6 +67,44 @@ struct nla_policy {
 	     nla_ok(pos, rem); \
 	     pos = nla_next(pos, &(rem)))
 
+/**
+ * nla_data - head of payload
+ * @nla: netlink attribute
+ */
+static inline void *nla_data(const struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+	return (char *) nla + NLA_HDRLEN;
+}
+
+static inline uint8_t nla_getattr_u8(const struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+	return *(uint8_t *)nla_data(nla);
+}
+
+static inline uint32_t nla_getattr_u32(const struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+	return *(uint32_t *)nla_data(nla);
+}
+
+static inline const char *nla_getattr_str(const struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+	return (const char *)nla_data(nla);
+}
+
+/**
+ * nla_len - length of payload
+ * @nla: netlink attribute
+ */
+static inline int nla_len(const struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+	return nla->nla_len - NLA_HDRLEN;
+}
+
+int nla_parse(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype, struct nlattr *head, int len,
+	      struct nla_policy *policy);
+int nla_parse_nested(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype, struct nlattr *nla,
+		     struct nla_policy *policy);
+
 int nla_dump_errormsg(struct nlmsghdr *nlh);
 
 #endif /* __NLATTR_H */