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linux-next/net/l2tp
Michal Kubecek ae0be8de9a netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag
Even if the NLA_F_NESTED flag was introduced more than 11 years ago, most
netlink based interfaces (including recently added ones) are still not
setting it in kernel generated messages. Without the flag, message parsers
not aware of attribute semantics (e.g. wireshark dissector or libmnl's
mnl_nlmsg_fprintf()) cannot recognize nested attributes and won't display
the structure of their contents.

Unfortunately we cannot just add the flag everywhere as there may be
userspace applications which check nlattr::nla_type directly rather than
through a helper masking out the flags. Therefore the patch renames
nla_nest_start() to nla_nest_start_noflag() and introduces nla_nest_start()
as a wrapper adding NLA_F_NESTED. The calls which add NLA_F_NESTED manually
are rewritten to use nla_nest_start().

Except for changes in include/net/netlink.h, the patch was generated using
this semantic patch:

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start(E1, E2)
+nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2)

@@ expression E1, E2; @@
-nla_nest_start_noflag(E1, E2 | NLA_F_NESTED)
+nla_nest_start(E1, E2)

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-04-27 17:03:44 -04:00
..
Kconfig l2tp: Call udp_sock_create 2014-07-14 16:12:15 -07:00
l2tp_core.c l2tp: copy 4 more bytes to linear part if necessary 2019-01-31 08:58:46 -08:00
l2tp_core.h l2tp: fix reading optional fields of L2TPv3 2019-01-30 21:44:17 -08:00
l2tp_debugfs.c l2tp: ignore L2TP_ATTR_MTU 2018-08-03 10:03:57 -07:00
l2tp_eth.c l2tp: fix unused function warning 2018-08-13 20:45:49 -07:00
l2tp_ip6.c net: rework SIOCGSTAMP ioctl handling 2019-04-19 14:07:40 -07:00
l2tp_ip.c net: rework SIOCGSTAMP ioctl handling 2019-04-19 14:07:40 -07:00
l2tp_netlink.c netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag 2019-04-27 17:03:44 -04:00
l2tp_ppp.c l2tp: fix set but not used variable 2019-04-18 17:06:15 -07:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00