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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2024-10-09 11:09:47 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-10-10 18:30:21 +0300
commit13d68a16430312fc21990f48326366eb73891202 (patch)
treeac5846331f7e46d70dbfb2dfcbfd26c3e728003e /include
parent80c549cd1ab0241a7af262690a0ff9991fc74ec5 (diff)
downloadlinux-13d68a16430312fc21990f48326366eb73891202.tar.xz
genetlink: extend info user-storage to match NL cb ctx
This allows a more uniform implementation of non-dump and dump operations, and will be used later in the series to avoid some per-operation allocation. Additionally rename the NL_ASSERT_DUMP_CTX_FITS macro, to fit a more extended usage. Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1130cc2896626b84587a2a5f96a5c6829638f4da.1728460186.git.pabeni@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h5
-rw-r--r--include/net/genetlink.h8
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index b332c2048c75..a3ca198a3a9e 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ struct netlink_skb_parms {
#define NETLINK_CB(skb) (*(struct netlink_skb_parms*)&((skb)->cb))
#define NETLINK_CREDS(skb) (&NETLINK_CB((skb)).creds)
+#define NETLINK_CTX_SIZE 48
void netlink_table_grab(void);
@@ -293,7 +294,7 @@ struct netlink_callback {
int flags;
bool strict_check;
union {
- u8 ctx[48];
+ u8 ctx[NETLINK_CTX_SIZE];
/* args is deprecated. Cast a struct over ctx instead
* for proper type safety.
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ struct netlink_callback {
};
};
-#define NL_ASSERT_DUMP_CTX_FITS(type_name) \
+#define NL_ASSERT_CTX_FITS(type_name) \
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(type_name) > \
sizeof_field(struct netlink_callback, ctx))
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index 9ab49bfeae78..9d3726e8f90e 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ struct genl_family {
* @genlhdr: generic netlink message header
* @attrs: netlink attributes
* @_net: network namespace
- * @user_ptr: user pointers
+ * @ctx: storage space for the use by the family
+ * @user_ptr: user pointers (deprecated, use ctx instead)
* @extack: extended ACK report struct
*/
struct genl_info {
@@ -135,7 +136,10 @@ struct genl_info {
struct genlmsghdr * genlhdr;
struct nlattr ** attrs;
possible_net_t _net;
- void * user_ptr[2];
+ union {
+ u8 ctx[NETLINK_CTX_SIZE];
+ void * user_ptr[2];
+ };
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack;
};