[NETLINK]: introduce NLA_BINARY type

This patch introduces a new NLA_BINARY attribute policy type with the
verification of simply checking the maximum length of the payload.

It also fixes a small typo in the example.

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

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index 004139557e09..df5f820a4c32 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ static int validate_nla(struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
                 }
                 break;
 
+        case NLA_BINARY:
+                if (pt->len && attrlen > pt->len)
+                        return -ERANGE;
+                break;
+
         default:
                 if (pt->len)
                         minlen = pt->len;