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| author | Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> | 2015-12-15 15:41:37 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-12-15 23:25:20 -0500 |
| commit | fc9e50f5a5a4e1fa9ba2756f745a13e693cf6a06 (patch) | |
| tree | 168120764bcdbba0aad5859c9044f7dd84eb4350 /net/netlink/genetlink.c | |
| parent | 3502cad73c4bbf8f6365d539e814159275252c59 (diff) | |
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netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump
The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the
dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in
the done callback.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/genetlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netlink/genetlink.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index bc0e504f33a6..8e63662c6fb0 100644 --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -513,6 +513,20 @@ void *genlmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(genlmsg_put); +static int genl_lock_start(struct netlink_callback *cb) +{ + /* our ops are always const - netlink API doesn't propagate that */ + const struct genl_ops *ops = cb->data; + int rc = 0; + + if (ops->start) { + genl_lock(); + rc = ops->start(cb); + genl_unlock(); + } + return rc; +} + static int genl_lock_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb) { /* our ops are always const - netlink API doesn't propagate that */ @@ -577,6 +591,7 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family, .module = family->module, /* we have const, but the netlink API doesn't */ .data = (void *)ops, + .start = genl_lock_start, .dump = genl_lock_dumpit, .done = genl_lock_done, }; @@ -588,6 +603,7 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family, } else { struct netlink_dump_control c = { .module = family->module, + .start = ops->start, .dump = ops->dumpit, .done = ops->done, }; |