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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-04-12 15:34:04 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-04-13 20:58:20 +0300
commit2d4bc93368f5a0ddb57c8c885cdad9c9b7a10ed5 (patch)
tree9a2dc502e27712a7742ae9315543395a29487fc9 /include/linux/netlink.h
parentfb9eb899a6dc663e4a2deed9af2ac28f507d0ffb (diff)
downloadlinux-2d4bc93368f5a0ddb57c8c885cdad9c9b7a10ed5.tar.xz
netlink: extended ACK reporting
Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink extended ACK reporting. All "manual" calls to netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and thus don't get extended ACK reporting. Big thanks goes to Pablo Neira Ayuso for not only bringing up the whole topic at netconf (again) but also coming up with the nlattr passing trick and various other ideas. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h26
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index da14ab61f363..60e7137f840d 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -62,11 +62,35 @@ netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net, int unit, struct netlink_kernel_cfg *cfg)
return __netlink_kernel_create(net, unit, THIS_MODULE, cfg);
}
+/**
+ * struct netlink_ext_ack - netlink extended ACK report struct
+ * @_msg: message string to report - don't access directly, use
+ * %NL_SET_ERR_MSG
+ * @bad_attr: attribute with error
+ */
+struct netlink_ext_ack {
+ const char *_msg;
+ const struct nlattr *bad_attr;
+};
+
+/* Always use this macro, this allows later putting the
+ * message into a separate section or such for things
+ * like translation or listing all possible messages.
+ * Currently string formatting is not supported (due
+ * to the lack of an output buffer.)
+ */
+#define NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, msg) do { \
+ static const char _msg[] = (msg); \
+ \
+ (extack)->_msg = _msg; \
+} while (0)
+
extern void netlink_kernel_release(struct sock *sk);
extern int __netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups);
extern int netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups);
extern void __netlink_clear_multicast_users(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group);
-extern void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err);
+extern void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
+ const struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
extern int netlink_has_listeners(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group);
extern int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 portid, int nonblock);