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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2008-01-22 22:10:59 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-28 15:11:09 -0800
commit01480e1cf5e2118eba8a8968239f3242072f9563 (patch)
treec967ad4acfeb3929ff191457a45fdb47eaf94bdb /net/netlink
parent2eb9d75c723252c1fa8f0206e6a0df220e3c64c0 (diff)
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[NETLINK]: Add nla_append()
Used to append data to a message without a header or padding. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/attr.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index ec39d12c2423..feb326f4a752 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -430,6 +430,24 @@ int nla_put_nohdr(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * nla_append - Add a netlink attribute without header or padding
+ * @skb: socket buffer to add attribute to
+ * @attrlen: length of attribute payload
+ * @data: head of attribute payload
+ *
+ * Returns -1 if the tailroom of the skb is insufficient to store
+ * the attribute payload.
+ */
+int nla_append(struct sk_buff *skb, int attrlen, const void *data)
+{
+ if (unlikely(skb_tailroom(skb) < NLA_ALIGN(attrlen)))
+ return -1;
+
+ memcpy(skb_put(skb, attrlen), data, attrlen);
+ return 0;
+}
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_validate);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_parse);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_find);
@@ -445,3 +463,4 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_put_nohdr);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_memcpy);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_memcmp);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strcmp);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_append);