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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2017-04-12 15:34:04 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-04-13 20:58:20 +0300 |
| commit | 2d4bc93368f5a0ddb57c8c885cdad9c9b7a10ed5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a2dc502e27712a7742ae9315543395a29487fc9 /include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | |
| parent | fb9eb899a6dc663e4a2deed9af2ac28f507d0ffb (diff) | |
| download | linux-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/uapi/linux/netlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h index b2c9c26ea30f..7df88770e029 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h @@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ struct nlmsghdr { #define NLM_F_CREATE 0x400 /* Create, if it does not exist */ #define NLM_F_APPEND 0x800 /* Add to end of list */ +/* Flags for ACK message */ +#define NLM_F_CAPPED 0x100 /* request was capped */ +#define NLM_F_ACK_TLVS 0x200 /* extended ACK TVLs were included */ + /* 4.4BSD ADD NLM_F_CREATE|NLM_F_EXCL 4.4BSD CHANGE NLM_F_REPLACE @@ -101,6 +105,33 @@ struct nlmsghdr { struct nlmsgerr { int error; struct nlmsghdr msg; + /* + * followed by the message contents unless NETLINK_CAP_ACK was set + * or the ACK indicates success (error == 0) + * message length is aligned with NLMSG_ALIGN() + */ + /* + * followed by TLVs defined in enum nlmsgerr_attrs + * if NETLINK_EXT_ACK was set + */ +}; + +/** + * enum nlmsgerr_attrs - nlmsgerr attributes + * @NLMSGERR_ATTR_UNUSED: unused + * @NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG: error message string (string) + * @NLMSGERR_ATTR_OFFS: offset of the invalid attribute in the original + * message, counting from the beginning of the header (u32) + * @__NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX: number of attributes + * @NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX: highest attribute number + */ +enum nlmsgerr_attrs { + NLMSGERR_ATTR_UNUSED, + NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG, + NLMSGERR_ATTR_OFFS, + + __NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX, + NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX = __NLMSGERR_ATTR_MAX - 1 }; #define NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP 1 @@ -115,6 +146,7 @@ struct nlmsgerr { #define NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID 8 #define NETLINK_LIST_MEMBERSHIPS 9 #define NETLINK_CAP_ACK 10 +#define NETLINK_EXT_ACK 11 struct nl_pktinfo { __u32 group; |