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authorSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2017-05-18 09:24:30 -0400
committerSean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>2017-05-18 09:24:30 -0400
commit6b7781b42dc9bc9bcd1523b6c24b876cdda0bef3 (patch)
treeee55c67e4ea30b9eb44f301ba0bde2e631a26162 /include/linux/netlink.h
parent52d9d38c183bf0e09601d875ea31bb53c05dd8cf (diff)
parente98c58e55f68f8785aebfab1f8c9a03d8de0afe1 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-misc-next
Picking up drm-next @ 4.12-rc1 in order to apply Michal Hocko's vmalloc patch set Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h38
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index da14ab61f363..5fff5ba5964e 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -62,11 +62,47 @@ netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net, int unit, struct netlink_kernel_cfg *cfg)
return __netlink_kernel_create(net, unit, THIS_MODULE, cfg);
}
+/* this can be increased when necessary - don't expose to userland */
+#define NETLINK_MAX_COOKIE_LEN 20
+
+/**
+ * struct netlink_ext_ack - netlink extended ACK report struct
+ * @_msg: message string to report - don't access directly, use
+ * %NL_SET_ERR_MSG
+ * @bad_attr: attribute with error
+ * @cookie: cookie data to return to userspace (for success)
+ * @cookie_len: actual cookie data length
+ */
+struct netlink_ext_ack {
+ const char *_msg;
+ const struct nlattr *bad_attr;
+ u8 cookie[NETLINK_MAX_COOKIE_LEN];
+ u8 cookie_len;
+};
+
+/* Always use this macro, this allows later putting the
+ * message into a separate section or such for things
+ * like translation or listing all possible messages.
+ * Currently string formatting is not supported (due
+ * to the lack of an output buffer.)
+ */
+#define NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, msg) do { \
+ static const char __msg[] = (msg); \
+ struct netlink_ext_ack *__extack = (extack); \
+ \
+ if (__extack) \
+ __extack->_msg = __msg; \
+} while (0)
+
+#define NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, msg) \
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG((extack), KBUILD_MODNAME ": " msg)
+
extern void netlink_kernel_release(struct sock *sk);
extern int __netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups);
extern int netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups);
extern void __netlink_clear_multicast_users(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group);
-extern void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err);
+extern void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
+ const struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
extern int netlink_has_listeners(struct sock *sk, unsigned int group);
extern int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 portid, int nonblock);