[NETLINK]: introduce NLA_BINARY type
This patch introduces a new NLA_BINARY attribute policy type with the
verification of simply checking the maximum length of the payload.
It also fixes a small typo in the example.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 1c11518..2e4c90a 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@
NLA_MSECS,
NLA_NESTED,
NLA_NUL_STRING,
+ NLA_BINARY,
__NLA_TYPE_MAX,
};
@@ -188,12 +189,13 @@
* NLA_STRING Maximum length of string
* NLA_NUL_STRING Maximum length of string (excluding NUL)
* NLA_FLAG Unused
+ * NLA_BINARY Maximum length of attribute payload
* All other Exact length of attribute payload
*
* Example:
* static struct nla_policy my_policy[ATTR_MAX+1] __read_mostly = {
* [ATTR_FOO] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
- * [ATTR_BAR] = { .type = NLA_STRING, len = BARSIZ },
+ * [ATTR_BAR] = { .type = NLA_STRING, .len = BARSIZ },
* [ATTR_BAZ] = { .len = sizeof(struct mystruct) },
* };
*/
diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index 0041395..df5f820 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@
}
break;
+ case NLA_BINARY:
+ if (pt->len && attrlen > pt->len)
+ return -ERANGE;
+ break;
+
default:
if (pt->len)
minlen = pt->len;