[NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute type

Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 84 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 7b510a9edb91..d7b824be5422 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@
  * Nested Attributes Construction:
  *   nla_nest_start(skb, type)          start a nested attribute
  *   nla_nest_end(skb, nla)             finalize a nested attribute
+ *   nla_nest_compat_start(skb, type,   start a nested compat attribute
+ *                         len, data)
+ *   nla_nest_compat_end(skb, type)     finalize a nested compat attribute
  *   nla_nest_cancel(skb, nla)          cancel nested attribute construction
  *
  * Attribute Length Calculations:
@@ -152,6 +155,7 @@
  *   nla_find_nested()                  find attribute in nested attributes
  *   nla_parse()                        parse and validate stream of attrs
  *   nla_parse_nested()                 parse nested attribuets
+ *   nla_parse_nested_compat()          parse nested compat attributes
  *   nla_for_each_attr()                loop over all attributes
  *   nla_for_each_nested()              loop over the nested attributes
  *=========================================================================
@@ -170,6 +174,7 @@ enum {
         NLA_FLAG,
         NLA_MSECS,
         NLA_NESTED,
+        NLA_NESTED_COMPAT,
         NLA_NUL_STRING,
         NLA_BINARY,
         __NLA_TYPE_MAX,
@@ -190,6 +195,7 @@ enum {
  *    NLA_NUL_STRING       Maximum length of string (excluding NUL)
  *    NLA_FLAG             Unused
  *    NLA_BINARY           Maximum length of attribute payload
+ *    NLA_NESTED_COMPAT    Exact length of structure payload
  *    All other            Exact length of attribute payload
  *
  * Example:
@@ -733,6 +739,39 @@ static inline int nla_parse_nested(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
 {
         return nla_parse(tb, maxtype, nla_data(nla), nla_len(nla), policy);
 }
+
+/**
+ * nla_parse_nested_compat - parse nested compat attributes
+ * @tb: destination array with maxtype+1 elements
+ * @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected
+ * @nla: attribute containing the nested attributes
+ * @data: pointer to point to contained structure
+ * @len: length of contained structure
+ * @policy: validation policy
+ *
+ * Parse a nested compat attribute. The compat attribute contains a structure
+ * and optionally a set of nested attributes. On success the data pointer
+ * points to the nested data and tb contains the parsed attributes
+ * (see nla_parse).
+ */
+static inline int __nla_parse_nested_compat(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
+                                            struct nlattr *nla,
+                                            const struct nla_policy *policy,
+                                            int len)
+{
+        if (nla_len(nla) < len)
+                return -1;
+        if (nla_len(nla) >= NLA_ALIGN(len) + sizeof(struct nlattr))
+                return nla_parse_nested(tb, maxtype,
+                                        nla_data(nla) + NLA_ALIGN(len),
+                                        policy);
+        memset(tb, 0, sizeof(struct nlattr *) * (maxtype + 1));
+        return 0;
+}
+
+#define nla_parse_nested_compat(tb, maxtype, nla, policy, data, len) \
+({      data = nla_len(nla) >= len ? nla_data(nla) : NULL; \
+        __nla_parse_nested_compat(tb, maxtype, nla, policy, len); })
 /**
  * nla_put_u8 - Add a u16 netlink attribute to a socket buffer
  * @skb: socket buffer to add attribute to
@@ -965,6 +1004,51 @@ static inline int nla_nest_end(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *start)
 }
 
 /**
+ * nla_nest_compat_start - Start a new level of nested compat attributes
+ * @skb: socket buffer to add attributes to
+ * @attrtype: attribute type of container
+ * @attrlen: length of structure
+ * @data: pointer to structure
+ *
+ * Start a nested compat attribute that contains both a structure and
+ * a set of nested attributes.
+ *
+ * Returns the container attribute
+ */
+static inline struct nlattr *nla_nest_compat_start(struct sk_buff *skb,
+                                                   int attrtype, int attrlen,
+                                                   const void *data)
+{
+        struct nlattr *start = (struct nlattr *)skb_tail_pointer(skb);
+
+        if (nla_put(skb, attrtype, attrlen, data) < 0)
+                return NULL;
+        if (nla_nest_start(skb, attrtype) == NULL) {
+                nlmsg_trim(skb, start);
+                return NULL;
+        }
+        return start;
+}
+
+/**
+ * nla_nest_compat_end - Finalize nesting of compat attributes
+ * @skb: socket buffer the attribtues are stored in
+ * @start: container attribute
+ *
+ * Corrects the container attribute header to include the all
+ * appeneded attributes.
+ *
+ * Returns the total data length of the skb.
+ */
+static inline int nla_nest_compat_end(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *start)
+{
+        struct nlattr *nest = (void *)start + NLMSG_ALIGN(start->nla_len);
+
+        start->nla_len = skb_tail_pointer(skb) - (unsigned char *)start;
+        return nla_nest_end(skb, nest);
+}
+
+/**
  * nla_nest_cancel - Cancel nesting of attributes
  * @skb: socket buffer the message is stored in
  * @start: container attribute