[NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute

This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within
the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced.

The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to
allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index d7b824be5422..695e613a207b 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -667,6 +667,15 @@ static inline int nla_padlen(int payload)
 }
 
 /**
+ * nla_type - attribute type
+ * @nla: netlink attribute
+ */
+static inline int nla_type(const struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+        return nla->nla_type & NLA_TYPE_MASK;
+}
+
+/**
  * nla_data - head of payload
  * @nla: netlink attribute
  */