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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2007-03-23 11:37:48 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-04-25 22:28:05 -0700
commitd30045a0bcf144753869175dd9d840f7ceaf4aba (patch)
treea5f5b5f7073fbd733a7c5ac877161018f43cf1fc
parent703315712cfccfe0b45ef4aa6994527d8ee95e33 (diff)
[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>
-rw-r--r--include/net/netlink.h4
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/attr.c5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 1c11518fc82..2e4c90a98a7 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ enum {
NLA_MSECS,
NLA_NESTED,
NLA_NUL_STRING,
+ NLA_BINARY,
__NLA_TYPE_MAX,
};
@@ -188,12 +189,13 @@ enum {
* 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 004139557e0..df5f820a4c3 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ static int validate_nla(struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
}
break;
+ case NLA_BINARY:
+ if (pt->len && attrlen > pt->len)
+ return -ERANGE;
+ break;
+
default:
if (pt->len)
minlen = pt->len;