netlink: specs: enforce strict naming of properties

Add a regexp to make sure all names which may end up being visible
to the user consist of lower case characters, numbers and dashes.
Underscores keep sneaking into the specs, which is not visible
in the C code but makes the Python and alike inconsistent.

Note that starting with a number is okay, as in C the full
name will include the family name.

For legacy families we can't enforce the naming in the family
name or the multicast group names, as these are part of the
binary uAPI of the kernel.

For classic netlink we need to allow capital letters in names
of struct members. TC has some structs with capitalized members.

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250624211002.3475021-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

3 files changed, 31 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
index 4cbfe666e6f5..b29d62eefa16 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ $schema: https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema
 
 # Common defines
 $defs:
+  name:
+    type: string
+    pattern: ^[0-9a-z-]+$
   uint:
     type: integer
     minimum: 0
@@ -76,7 +79,7 @@ properties:
       additionalProperties: False
       properties:
         name:
-          type: string
+          $ref: '#/$defs/name'
         header:
           description: For C-compatible languages, header which already defines this value.
           type: string
@@ -103,7 +106,7 @@ properties:
                 additionalProperties: False
                 properties:
                   name:
-                    type: string
+                    $ref: '#/$defs/name'
                   value:
                     type: integer
                   doc:
@@ -132,7 +135,7 @@ properties:
             additionalProperties: False
             properties:
               name:
-                type: string
+                $ref: '#/$defs/name'
               type:
                 description: The netlink attribute type
                 enum: [ u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64, string, binary ]
@@ -169,7 +172,7 @@ properties:
         name:
           description: |
             Name used when referring to this space in other definitions, not used outside of the spec.
-          type: string
+          $ref: '#/$defs/name'
         name-prefix:
           description: |
             Prefix for the C enum name of the attributes. Default family[name]-set[name]-a-
@@ -206,7 +209,7 @@ properties:
             additionalProperties: False
             properties:
               name:
-                type: string
+                $ref: '#/$defs/name'
               type: &attr-type
                 description: The netlink attribute type
                 enum: [ unused, pad, flag, binary, bitfield32,
@@ -348,7 +351,7 @@ properties:
           properties:
             name:
               description: Name of the operation, also defining its C enum value in uAPI.
-              type: string
+              $ref: '#/$defs/name'
             doc:
               description: Documentation for the command.
               type: string
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml
index 40efbbad76ab..7b1ec153e834 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ $schema: https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema
 
 # Common defines
 $defs:
+  name:
+    type: string
+    pattern: ^[0-9a-z-]+$
   uint:
     type: integer
     minimum: 0
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ additionalProperties: False
 properties:
   name:
     description: Name of the genetlink family.
-    type: string
+    $ref: '#/$defs/name'
   doc:
     type: string
   protocol:
@@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ properties:
       additionalProperties: False
       properties:
         name:
-          type: string
+          $ref: '#/$defs/name'
         header:
           description: For C-compatible languages, header which already defines this value.
           type: string
@@ -75,7 +78,7 @@ properties:
                 additionalProperties: False
                 properties:
                   name:
-                    type: string
+                    $ref: '#/$defs/name'
                   value:
                     type: integer
                   doc:
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ properties:
         name:
           description: |
             Name used when referring to this space in other definitions, not used outside of the spec.
-          type: string
+          $ref: '#/$defs/name'
         name-prefix:
           description: |
             Prefix for the C enum name of the attributes. Default family[name]-set[name]-a-
@@ -121,7 +124,7 @@ properties:
             additionalProperties: False
             properties:
               name:
-                type: string
+                $ref: '#/$defs/name'
               type: &attr-type
                 enum: [ unused, pad, flag, binary,
                         uint, sint, u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64,
@@ -243,7 +246,7 @@ properties:
           properties:
             name:
               description: Name of the operation, also defining its C enum value in uAPI.
-              type: string
+              $ref: '#/$defs/name'
             doc:
               description: Documentation for the command.
               type: string
@@ -327,7 +330,7 @@ properties:
             name:
               description: |
                 The name for the group, used to form the define and the value of the define.
-              type: string
+              $ref: '#/$defs/name'
             flags: *cmd_flags
 
   kernel-family:
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/netlink-raw.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/netlink-raw.yaml
index e34bf23897fa..246fa07bccf6 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/netlink-raw.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/netlink-raw.yaml
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ $schema: https://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema
 
 # Common defines
 $defs:
+  name:
+    type: string
+    pattern: ^[0-9a-z-]+$
+  name-cap:
+    type: string
+    pattern: ^[0-9a-zA-Z-]+$
   uint:
     type: integer
     minimum: 0
@@ -71,7 +77,7 @@ properties:
       additionalProperties: False
       properties:
         name:
-          type: string
+          $ref: '#/$defs/name'
         header:
           description: For C-compatible languages, header which already defines this value.
           type: string
@@ -98,7 +104,7 @@ properties:
                 additionalProperties: False
                 properties:
                   name:
-                    type: string
+                    $ref: '#/$defs/name'
                   value:
                     type: integer
                   doc:
@@ -124,7 +130,7 @@ properties:
             additionalProperties: False
             properties:
               name:
-                type: string
+                $ref: '#/$defs/name-cap'
               type:
                 description: |
                   The netlink attribute type. Members of type 'binary' or 'pad'
@@ -183,7 +189,7 @@ properties:
         name:
           description: |
             Name used when referring to this space in other definitions, not used outside of the spec.
-          type: string
+          $ref: '#/$defs/name'
         name-prefix:
           description: |
             Prefix for the C enum name of the attributes. Default family[name]-set[name]-a-
@@ -220,7 +226,7 @@ properties:
             additionalProperties: False
             properties:
               name:
-                type: string
+                $ref: '#/$defs/name'
               type: &attr-type
                 description: The netlink attribute type
                 enum: [ unused, pad, flag, binary, bitfield32,
@@ -408,7 +414,7 @@ properties:
           properties:
             name:
               description: Name of the operation, also defining its C enum value in uAPI.
-              type: string
+              $ref: '#/$defs/name'
             doc:
               description: Documentation for the command.
               type: string