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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-08-25 20:09:31 -0700
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2022-08-30 12:20:43 +0200
commit690252f19f0e486abb8590b3a7a03d4e065d93d4 (patch)
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netlink: add support for ext_ack missing attributes
There is currently no way to report via extack in a structured way that an attribute is missing. This leads to families resorting to string messages. Add a pair of attributes - @offset and @type for machine-readable way of reporting missing attributes. The @offset points to the nest which should have contained the attribute, @type is the expected nla_type. The offset will be skipped if the attribute is missing at the message level rather than inside a nest. User space should be able to figure out which attribute enum (AKA attribute space AKA attribute set) the nest pointed to by @offset is using. Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 7eae157c1625..f89ba302ac6e 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2423,6 +2423,10 @@ netlink_ack_tlv_len(struct netlink_sock *nlk, int err,
tlvlen += nla_total_size(sizeof(u32));
if (extack->policy)
tlvlen += netlink_policy_dump_attr_size_estimate(extack->policy);
+ if (extack->miss_type)
+ tlvlen += nla_total_size(sizeof(u32));
+ if (extack->miss_nest)
+ tlvlen += nla_total_size(sizeof(u32));
return tlvlen;
}
@@ -2449,6 +2453,14 @@ netlink_ack_tlv_fill(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (extack->policy)
netlink_policy_dump_write_attr(skb, extack->policy,
NLMSGERR_ATTR_POLICY);
+ if (extack->miss_type)
+ WARN_ON(nla_put_u32(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MISS_TYPE,
+ extack->miss_type));
+ if (extack->miss_nest &&
+ !WARN_ON((u8 *)extack->miss_nest < in_skb->data ||
+ (u8 *)extack->miss_nest > in_skb->data + in_skb->len))
+ WARN_ON(nla_put_u32(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MISS_NEST,
+ (u8 *)extack->miss_nest - (u8 *)nlh));
}
void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,