netlink: add infrastructure to expose policies to userspace

Add, and use in generic netlink, helpers to dump out a netlink
policy to userspace, including all the range validation data,
nested policies etc.

This lets userspace discover what the kernel understands.

For families/commands other than generic netlink, the helpers
need to be used directly in an appropriate command, or we can
add some infrastructure (a new netlink family) that those can
register their policies with for introspection. I'm not that
familiar with non-generic netlink, so that's left out for now.

The data exposed to userspace also includes min and max length
for binary/string data, I've done that instead of letting the
userspace tools figure out whether min/max is intended based
on the type so that we can extend this later in the kernel, we
might want to just use the range data for example.

Because of this, I opted to not directly expose the NLA_*
values, even if some of them are already exposed via BPF, as
with min/max length we don't need to have different types here
for NLA_BINARY/NLA_MIN_LEN/NLA_EXACT_LEN, we just make them
all NL_ATTR_TYPE_BINARY with min/max length optionally set.

Similarly, we don't really need NLA_MSECS, and perhaps can
remove it in the future - but not if we encode it into the
userspace API now. It gets mapped to NL_ATTR_TYPE_U64 here.

Note that the exposing here corresponds to the strict policy
interpretation, and NLA_UNSPEC items are omitted entirely.
To get those, change them to NLA_MIN_LEN which behaves in
exactly the same way, but is exposed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 557b67f1db99..c0411f14fb53 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -1933,4 +1933,10 @@ void nla_get_range_unsigned(const struct nla_policy *pt,
 void nla_get_range_signed(const struct nla_policy *pt,
 			  struct netlink_range_validation_signed *range);
 
+int netlink_policy_dump_start(const struct nla_policy *policy,
+			      unsigned int maxtype,
+			      unsigned long *state);
+bool netlink_policy_dump_loop(unsigned long *state);
+int netlink_policy_dump_write(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned long state);
+
 #endif