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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/genetlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 28 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index 84125088c309..0574abd3db86 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -27,13 +27,18 @@ struct genl_info; * @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported * @netnsok: set to true if the family can handle network * namespaces and should be presented in all of them + * @parallel_ops: operations can be called in parallel and aren't + * synchronized by the core genetlink code * @pre_doit: called before an operation's doit callback, it may * do additional, common, filtering and return an error * @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may * undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks * @mcast_bind: a socket bound to the given multicast group (which * is given as the offset into the groups array) - * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group + * @mcast_unbind: a socket was unbound from the given multicast group. + * Note that unbind() will not be called symmetrically if the + * generic netlink family is removed while there are still open + * sockets. * @attrbuf: buffer to store parsed attributes * @family_list: family list * @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family (private) @@ -206,6 +211,23 @@ static inline struct nlmsghdr *genlmsg_nlhdr(void *user_hdr, } /** + * genlmsg_parse - parse attributes of a genetlink message + * @nlh: netlink message header + * @family: genetlink message family + * @tb: destination array with maxtype+1 elements + * @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected + * @policy: validation policy + * */ +static inline int genlmsg_parse(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, + const struct genl_family *family, + struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype, + const struct nla_policy *policy) +{ + return nlmsg_parse(nlh, family->hdrsize + GENL_HDRLEN, tb, maxtype, + policy); +} + +/** * genl_dump_check_consistent - check if sequence is consistent and advertise if not * @cb: netlink callback structure that stores the sequence number * @user_hdr: user header as returned from genlmsg_put() @@ -245,9 +267,9 @@ static inline void *genlmsg_put_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, * @skb: socket buffer the message is stored in * @hdr: user specific header */ -static inline int genlmsg_end(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr) +static inline void genlmsg_end(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr) { - return nlmsg_end(skb, hdr - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN); + nlmsg_end(skb, hdr - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN); } /** |