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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-11-21 12:21:53 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-11-21 12:21:53 +0300 |
commit | 05df6ab8eba625a1d97eb67ee06d786b8e460685 (patch) | |
tree | 7fed59b7f49fd8d816475ca6b20c95c7f837ca6f /include/net/genetlink.h | |
parent | 1d926e259d8f8195fdfaeea7951149001894b473 (diff) | |
parent | eb7081409f94a9a8608593d0fb63a1aa3d6f95d8 (diff) | |
download | linux-05df6ab8eba625a1d97eb67ee06d786b8e460685.tar.xz |
Merge 6.1-rc6 into driver-core-next
We need the kernfs changes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/genetlink.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index 8f780170e2f8..9f97f73615b6 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -37,16 +37,25 @@ struct genl_info; * do additional, common, filtering and return an error * @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may * undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks + * @module: pointer to the owning module (set to THIS_MODULE) * @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family * @n_mcgrps: number of multicast groups * @resv_start_op: first operation for which reserved fields of the header - * can be validated, new families should leave this field at zero + * can be validated and policies are required (see below); + * new families should leave this field at zero * @mcgrp_offset: starting number of multicast group IDs in this family * (private) * @ops: the operations supported by this family * @n_ops: number of operations supported by this family * @small_ops: the small-struct operations supported by this family * @n_small_ops: number of small-struct operations supported by this family + * + * Attribute policies (the combination of @policy and @maxattr fields) + * can be attached at the family level or at the operation level. + * If both are present the per-operation policy takes precedence. + * For operations before @resv_start_op lack of policy means that the core + * will perform no attribute parsing or validation. For newer operations + * if policy is not provided core will reject all TLV attributes. */ struct genl_family { int id; /* private */ @@ -173,9 +182,9 @@ struct genl_ops { }; /** - * struct genl_info - info that is available during dumpit op call + * struct genl_dumpit_info - info that is available during dumpit op call * @family: generic netlink family - for internal genl code usage - * @ops: generic netlink ops - for internal genl code usage + * @op: generic netlink ops - for internal genl code usage * @attrs: netlink attributes */ struct genl_dumpit_info { @@ -354,6 +363,7 @@ int genlmsg_multicast_allns(const struct genl_family *family, /** * genlmsg_unicast - unicast a netlink message + * @net: network namespace to look up @portid in * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer * @portid: netlink portid of the destination socket */ @@ -373,7 +383,7 @@ static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) } /** - * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload + * genlmsg_data - head of message payload * @gnlh: genetlink message header */ static inline void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh) |