Merge branch 'net-smc-add-support-for-generic-netlink-api'
Karsten Graul says: ==================== net/smc: Add support for generic netlink API Up to version 4 this patch series was using the sock_diag netlink infrastructure. This version is using the generic netlink API. Generic netlink API offers a better type safety between kernel and userspace communication. Using the generic netlink API the smc module can now provide information about SMC linkgroups, links and devices (both for SMC-R and SMC-D). v2: Add missing include to uapi header smc_diag.h. v3: Apply code style recommendations from review comments. Instead of using EXPORTs to allow the smc_diag module to access data of the smc module, introduce struct smc_diag_ops and let smc_diag access the required data using function pointers. v4: Address checkpatch.pl warnings. Do not use static inline for functions. v5: Use generic netlink API instead of the sock_diag netlink infrastructure. v6: Integrate more review comments from Jakub. v7: Use nla_nest_start() with the new family. Use .maxattr=1 in the genl family and define one entry for attribute 1 in the policy to reject this attritbute for all commands. All other possible attributes are rejected because NL_VALIDATE_STRICT is set for the policy implicitely, which includes NL_VALIDATE_MAXTYPE. Setting policy[0].strict_start_type=1 does not work here because there is no valid attribute defined for this family, only plain commands. For any type > maxtype (which is .maxattr) validate_nla() would return 0 to userspace instead of -EINVAL. What helps here is __nla_validate_parse() which checks for type > maxtype and returns -EINVAL when NL_VALIDATE_MAXTYPE is set. This requires the one entry for type == .maxattr with .type = NLA_REJECT in the nla_policy. When a future command wants to allow attributes then it can easily specify a dedicated .policy for this new command in the genl_ops array. This dedicated policy overlays the global policy specified in the genl_family structure. ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201201192049.53517-1-kgraul@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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