tipc: add bearer disable/enable to new netlink api

A new netlink API for tipc that can disable or enable a tipc bearer.

The new API is separated from the old API because of a bug in the
user space client (tipc-config). The problem is that older versions
of tipc-config has a very low receive limit and adding commands to
the legacy genl_opts struct causes the ctrl_getfamily() response
message to grow, subsequently breaking the tool.

The new API utilizes netlink policies for input validation. Where the
top-level netlink attributes are tipc-logical entities, like bearer.
The top level entities then contain nested attributes. In this case
a name, nested link properties and a domain.

Netlink commands implemented in this patch:
TIPC_NL_BEARER_ENABLE
TIPC_NL_BEARER_DISABLE

Netlink logical layout of bearer enable message:
-> bearer
    -> name
    [ -> domain ]
    [
    -> properties
        -> priority
    ]

Netlink logical layout of bearer disable message:
-> bearer
    -> name

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/link.h b/net/tipc/link.h
index b567a3427fda..4338294f20d4 100644
--- a/net/tipc/link.h
+++ b/net/tipc/link.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #ifndef _TIPC_LINK_H
 #define _TIPC_LINK_H
 
+#include <net/genetlink.h>
 #include "msg.h"
 #include "node.h"
 
@@ -239,6 +240,8 @@ void tipc_link_set_queue_limits(struct tipc_link *l_ptr, u32 window);
 void tipc_link_retransmit(struct tipc_link *l_ptr,
 			  struct sk_buff *start, u32 retransmits);
 
+int tipc_nl_parse_link_prop(struct nlattr *prop, struct nlattr *props[]);
+
 /*
  * Link sequence number manipulation routines (uses modulo 2**16 arithmetic)
  */