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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-10-24 14:40:01 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-10-27 16:16:08 -0400
commitc90c39dab3e02ce45427a214746711f33ad13be6 (patch)
treebfd0b747bc412fbe73ea68518df15d149ce8333a /net/netlink
parent4fe77d82ef80c77031c9c6f8554cd0dee2aa423a (diff)
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genetlink: introduce and use genl_family_attrbuf()
This helper function allows family implementations to access their family's attrbuf. This gets rid of the attrbuf usage in families, and also adds locking validation, since it's not valid to use the attrbuf with parallel_ops or outside of the dumpit callback. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 23cc126..01291b7 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -1096,6 +1096,25 @@ problem:
subsys_initcall(genl_init);
+/**
+ * genl_family_attrbuf - return family's attrbuf
+ * @family: the family
+ *
+ * Return the family's attrbuf, while validating that it's
+ * actually valid to access it.
+ *
+ * You cannot use this function with a family that has parallel_ops
+ * and you can only use it within (pre/post) doit/dumpit callbacks.
+ */
+struct nlattr **genl_family_attrbuf(struct genl_family *family)
+{
+ if (!WARN_ON(family->parallel_ops))
+ lockdep_assert_held(&genl_mutex);
+
+ return family->attrbuf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(genl_family_attrbuf);
+
static int genlmsg_mcast(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, unsigned long group,
gfp_t flags)
{
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