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authorTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>2015-12-15 15:41:37 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-12-15 23:25:20 -0500
commitfc9e50f5a5a4e1fa9ba2756f745a13e693cf6a06 (patch)
tree168120764bcdbba0aad5859c9044f7dd84eb4350 /net/netlink/genetlink.c
parent3502cad73c4bbf8f6365d539e814159275252c59 (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.c16
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,
};