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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2011-11-03 00:10:05 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-11-04 17:48:23 -0400
commit4b6cc7284ddc9a54910f111085ebf0143ef3f5bd (patch)
treed2c94d708bed468a0a2843f4d0611435b134306b /include/net
parentc30bc94758ae2a38a5eb31767c1985c0aae0950b (diff)
netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation
The documentation for how the length of attributes is checked is wrong ("Exact length" isn't true, the policy checks are for "minimum length") and a bit misleading. Make it more complete and explain what really happens. Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/netlink.h11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 98c185441be..cb1f3504687 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -192,8 +192,15 @@ enum {
* NLA_NUL_STRING Maximum length of string (excluding NUL)
* NLA_FLAG Unused
* NLA_BINARY Maximum length of attribute payload
- * NLA_NESTED_COMPAT Exact length of structure payload
- * All other Exact length of attribute payload
+ * NLA_NESTED Don't use `len' field -- length verification is
+ * done by checking len of nested header (or empty)
+ * NLA_NESTED_COMPAT Minimum length of structure payload
+ * NLA_U8, NLA_U16,
+ * NLA_U32, NLA_U64,
+ * NLA_MSECS Leaving the length field zero will verify the
+ * given type fits, using it verifies minimum length
+ * just like "All other"
+ * All other Minimum length of attribute payload
*
* Example:
* static const struct nla_policy my_policy[ATTR_MAX+1] = {