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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-06-25 13:49:35 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-07-10 22:15:38 -0700
commit1092cb219774a82b1f16781aec7b8d4ec727c981 (patch)
treedddd1d559e08c07b41715d8cf2678ff7d45d5230 /net
parent334a8132d9950f769f390f0f35c233d099688e7a (diff)
[NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute type
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a backwards compatible way. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/attr.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/attr.c b/net/netlink/attr.c
index c591212793e..e4d7bed99c2 100644
--- a/net/netlink/attr.c
+++ b/net/netlink/attr.c
@@ -72,6 +72,17 @@ static int validate_nla(struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
return -ERANGE;
break;
+ case NLA_NESTED_COMPAT:
+ if (attrlen < pt->len)
+ return -ERANGE;
+ if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len))
+ break;
+ if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len) + NLA_HDRLEN)
+ return -ERANGE;
+ nla = nla_data(nla) + NLA_ALIGN(pt->len);
+ if (attrlen < NLA_ALIGN(pt->len) + NLA_HDRLEN + nla_len(nla))
+ return -ERANGE;
+ break;
default:
if (pt->len)
minlen = pt->len;