[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/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;