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Merge branch 'netlink-nested-policy-validation'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:24:48 +0000 (10:24 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:24:48 +0000 (10:24 -0700)
commit31df0cffa974df05a7036d1e5e5dbf0733c7f5ff
tree8cce360cee760f94af43ef1c236cdbbbbf57a4d3
parent1042caa79e9351b81ed19dc8d2d7fd6ff51a4422
parent1501d13596b92d6d1f0ea5e104be838188b6e026
Merge branch 'netlink-nested-policy-validation'

Johannes Berg says:

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netlink: nested policy validation

This adds nested policy validation, which lets you specify the
nested attribute type, e.g. NLA_NESTED with sub-policy, or the
new NLA_NESTED_ARRAY with sub-sub-policy.

Changes in v2:
 * move setting the bad attr pointer/message into validate_nla()
 * remove the recursion patch since that's no longer needed
 * simply skip the generic bad attr pointer/message setting in
   case of nested nla_validate() failing since that could fail
   only due to validate_nla() failing inside, which already sets
   the extack information

Changes in v3:
 * fix NLA_REJECT to have an error message if none is in policy
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>