Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 07:48:56PM CEST, johan...@sipsolutions.net wrote:
>From: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
>
>Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink
>extended ACK reporting. All "manual" calls to
>netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and thus don't
>get extended ACK reporting.
Why so narrow? :)
>
>Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com>
>---
[...]
>diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
>index da14ab61f363..47562e940e9c 100644
>--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
>+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
>@@ -62,11 +62,41 @@ netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net, int unit, struct
>netlink_kernel_cfg *cfg)
> return __netlink_kernel_create(net, unit, THIS_MODULE, cfg);
> }
>
>+/**
>+ * struct netlink_ext_ack - netlink extended ACK report struct
>+ * @_msg: message string to report - don't access directly, use
>+ * %NL_SET_ERR_MSG
>+ * @bad_attr: attribute with error
>+ * @missing_attr: number of missing attr (or 0)
>+ * @cookie: cookie data to return to userspace (for success)
>+ * @cookie_len: actual cookie data length
>+ */
>+struct netlink_ext_ack {
>+ const char *_msg;
>+ const struct nlattr *bad_attr;
>+ u16 missing_attr;
>+ u8 cookie[NETLINK_MAX_COOKIE_LEN];
>+ u8 cookie_len;
>+};
>+
>+/* Always use this macro, this allows later putting the
>+ * message into a separate section or such for things
>+ * like translation or listing all possible messages.
>+ * Currently string formatting is not supported (due
>+ * to the lack of an output buffer.)
Please use 80 cols.
[...]
>@@ -2267,21 +2284,37 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct
>sk_buff *skb,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netlink_dump_start);
>
>-void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err)
>+void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
>+ const struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
> {
> struct sk_buff *skb;
> struct nlmsghdr *rep;
> struct nlmsgerr *errmsg;
> size_t payload = sizeof(*errmsg);
>+ size_t acksize = sizeof(*errmsg);
> struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(NETLINK_CB(in_skb).sk);
>
> /* Error messages get the original request appened, unless the user
>- * requests to cap the error message.
>+ * requests to cap the error message, and get extra error data if
>+ * requested.
> */
>- if (!(nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK) && err)
>- payload += nlmsg_len(nlh);
>+ if (err) {
>+ if (!(nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK))
>+ payload += nlmsg_len(nlh);
>+ acksize = payload;
>+ if (nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK) {
>+ if (extack && extack->_msg)
>+ acksize +=
>+ nla_total_size(strlen(extack->_msg) +
>1);
>+ if (extack && extack->bad_attr)
>+ acksize += nla_total_size(sizeof(u32));
>+ if (extack &&
>+ (extack->missing_attr || extack->bad_attr))
Attr could be 0, right? I know that on the most of the places 0 is
UNSPEC, but I'm pretty sure not everywhere.
>+ acksize += nla_total_size(sizeof(u16));
>+ }
>+ }
>
>- skb = nlmsg_new(payload, GFP_KERNEL);
>+ skb = nlmsg_new(acksize, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!skb) {
> struct sock *sk;
>
[...]
Look very good. Thanks for taking care of this!
