From 8f4c1f9b049df3be11090f1c2c4738700302acae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:44:36 +0200 Subject: [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced. The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netlink.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ include/net/netlink.h | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h index d2843ae4a83a..e638256ce472 100644 --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h @@ -131,6 +131,20 @@ struct nlattr __u16 nla_type; }; +/* + * nla_type (16 bits) + * +---+---+-------------------------------+ + * | N | O | Attribute Type | + * +---+---+-------------------------------+ + * N := Carries nested attributes + * O := Payload stored in network byte order + * + * Note: The N and O flag are mutually exclusive. + */ +#define NLA_F_NESTED (1 << 15) +#define NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER (1 << 14) +#define NLA_TYPE_MASK ~(NLA_F_NESTED | NLA_F_NET_BYTEORDER) + #define NLA_ALIGNTO 4 #define NLA_ALIGN(len) (((len) + NLA_ALIGNTO - 1) & ~(NLA_ALIGNTO - 1)) #define NLA_HDRLEN ((int) NLA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct nlattr))) diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h index d7b824be5422..695e613a207b 100644 --- a/include/net/netlink.h +++ b/include/net/netlink.h @@ -666,6 +666,15 @@ static inline int nla_padlen(int payload) return nla_total_size(payload) - nla_attr_size(payload); } +/** + * nla_type - attribute type + * @nla: netlink attribute + */ +static inline int nla_type(const struct nlattr *nla) +{ + return nla->nla_type & NLA_TYPE_MASK; +} + /** * nla_data - head of payload * @nla: netlink attribute -- cgit v1.2.3