netfilter: nf_tables: add nft_dereference() macro

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
index e7e14ffe0f6a..81abd61500f4 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/netfilter.h>
+#include <linux/netfilter/nfnetlink.h>
 #include <linux/netfilter/x_tables.h>
 #include <linux/netfilter/nf_tables.h>
 #include <net/netlink.h>
@@ -521,6 +522,9 @@ void nft_unregister_chain_type(const struct nf_chain_type *);
 int nft_register_expr(struct nft_expr_type *);
 void nft_unregister_expr(struct nft_expr_type *);
 
+#define nft_dereference(p)                                      \
+        nfnl_dereference(p, NFNL_SUBSYS_NFTABLES)
+
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_NFT_FAMILY(family) \
         MODULE_ALIAS("nft-afinfo-" __stringify(family))