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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-28 04:21:18 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-28 04:26:01 +0100 |
commit | 82268da1b130f763d22d04f7d016bbf6fc8815c2 (patch) | |
tree | 9803f361556d10708313e980428e63a18162e667 /lib | |
parent | 6e15cf04860074ad032e88c306bea656bbdd0f22 (diff) | |
parent | 5d80f8e5a9dc9c9a94d4aeaa567e219a808b8a4a (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/time_64.c
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c
Manual merge to resolve build warning due to phys_addr_t type change
on x86:
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/nlattr.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c index 80009a24e21d..c4706eb98d3d 100644 --- a/lib/nlattr.c +++ b/lib/nlattr.c @@ -133,6 +133,32 @@ errout: } /** + * nla_policy_len - Determin the max. length of a policy + * @policy: policy to use + * @n: number of policies + * + * Determines the max. length of the policy. It is currently used + * to allocated Netlink buffers roughly the size of the actual + * message. + * + * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code. + */ +int +nla_policy_len(const struct nla_policy *p, int n) +{ + int i, len = 0; + + for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { + if (p->len) + len += nla_total_size(p->len); + else if (nla_attr_minlen[p->type]) + len += nla_total_size(nla_attr_minlen[p->type]); + } + + return len; +} + +/** * nla_parse - Parse a stream of attributes into a tb buffer * @tb: destination array with maxtype+1 elements * @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected @@ -467,6 +493,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_append); #endif EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_validate); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_policy_len); EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_parse); EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_find); EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strlcpy); |