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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/netlink.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h index 91907852da1c..3698ca8ff92c 100644 --- a/include/net/netlink.h +++ b/include/net/netlink.h @@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ enum { NLA_FLAG, NLA_MSECS, NLA_NESTED, + NLA_NESTED_ARRAY, NLA_NUL_STRING, NLA_BINARY, NLA_S8, @@ -200,7 +201,8 @@ enum { * NLA_NUL_STRING Maximum length of string (excluding NUL) * NLA_FLAG Unused * NLA_BINARY Maximum length of attribute payload - * NLA_NESTED Length verification is done by checking len of + * NLA_NESTED, + * NLA_NESTED_ARRAY Length verification is done by checking len of * nested header (or empty); len field is used if * validation_data is also used, for the max attr * number in the nested policy. @@ -230,6 +232,12 @@ enum { * `len' to the max attribute number. * Note that nla_parse() will validate, but of course not * parse, the nested sub-policies. + * NLA_NESTED_ARRAY Points to a nested policy to validate, must also set + * `len' to the max attribute number. The difference to + * NLA_NESTED is the structure - NLA_NESTED has the + * nested attributes directly inside, while an array has + * the nested attributes at another level down and the + * attributes directly in the nesting don't matter. * All other Unused * * Example: @@ -255,6 +263,8 @@ struct nla_policy { #define NLA_POLICY_NESTED(maxattr, policy) \ { .type = NLA_NESTED, .validation_data = policy, .len = maxattr } +#define NLA_POLICY_NESTED_ARRAY(maxattr, policy) \ + { .type = NLA_NESTED_ARRAY, .validation_data = policy, .len = maxattr } /** * struct nl_info - netlink source information |