From ebe0bbf06c9e03613bdcb6b5a704595a9344b7ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:52:19 -0700 Subject: [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: use highest bit of nfa_type to indicate nested TLV As Henrik Nordstrom pointed out, all our efforts with "split endian" (i.e. host byte order tags, net byte order values) are useless, unless a parser can determine whether an attribute is nested or not. This patch steals the highest bit of nfattr.nfa_type to indicate whether the data payload contains a nested nfattr (1) or not (0). This will break userspace compatibility, but luckily no kernel with nfnetlink was released so far. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c index 1caaca06f698..4bc27a6334c1 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ int nfattr_parse(struct nfattr *tb[], int maxattr, struct nfattr *nfa, int len) memset(tb, 0, sizeof(struct nfattr *) * maxattr); while (NFA_OK(nfa, len)) { - unsigned flavor = nfa->nfa_type; + unsigned flavor = NFA_TYPE(nfa); if (flavor && flavor <= maxattr) tb[flavor-1] = nfa; nfa = NFA_NEXT(nfa, len); @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ nfnetlink_check_attributes(struct nfnetlink_subsystem *subsys, int attrlen = nlh->nlmsg_len - NLMSG_ALIGN(min_len); while (NFA_OK(attr, attrlen)) { - unsigned flavor = attr->nfa_type; + unsigned flavor = NFA_TYPE(attr); if (flavor) { if (flavor > attr_count) return -EINVAL; -- cgit v1.2.2