netlink: Remove compat API for nested attributes

Removes all _nested_compat() functions from the API. The prio qdisc
no longer requires them and netem has its own format anyway. Their
existance is only confusing.

Resend: Also remove the wrapper macro.

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

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_netem.c b/net/sched/sch_netem.c
index 3781e55046d0..a11959908d9a 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_netem.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_netem.c
@@ -388,6 +388,20 @@ static const struct nla_policy netem_policy[TCA_NETEM_MAX + 1] = {
         [TCA_NETEM_CORRUPT]     = { .len = sizeof(struct tc_netem_corrupt) },
 };
 
+static int parse_attr(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype, struct nlattr *nla,
+                      const struct nla_policy *policy, int len)
+{
+        int nested_len = nla_len(nla) - NLA_ALIGN(len);
+
+        if (nested_len < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (nested_len >= nla_attr_size(0))
+                return nla_parse(tb, maxtype, nla_data(nla) + NLA_ALIGN(len),
+                                 nested_len, policy);
+        memset(tb, 0, sizeof(struct nlattr *) * (maxtype + 1));
+        return 0;
+}
+
 /* Parse netlink message to set options */
 static int netem_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
 {
@@ -399,8 +413,8 @@ static int netem_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt)
         if (opt == NULL)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
-        ret = nla_parse_nested_compat(tb, TCA_NETEM_MAX, opt, netem_policy,
-                                      qopt, sizeof(*qopt));
+        qopt = nla_data(opt);
+        ret = parse_attr(tb, TCA_NETEM_MAX, opt, netem_policy, sizeof(*qopt));
         if (ret < 0)
                 return ret;