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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2017-10-27 17:37:12 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-11-01 11:50:43 +0900
commit4f6265d485ea0a2507692ded8ed47b323f49587c (patch)
tree6d7e1790ae72b6c6b5fd6838e32c002543fda81d /net/netlink
parenta7b216b1e1cbbe7dceec2d69403bf249bb804abe (diff)
netlink: Allow ext_ack to carry non-error messages
The NLMSGERR API already carries data (eg, a cookie) on the success path. Allow a message string to be returned as well. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 767c84e10e20..26ded4239611 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2313,17 +2313,16 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
* requests to cap the error message, and get extra error data if
* requested.
*/
+ if (nlk_has_extack && extack && extack->_msg)
+ tlvlen += nla_total_size(strlen(extack->_msg) + 1);
+
if (err) {
if (!(nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_CAP_ACK))
payload += nlmsg_len(nlh);
else
flags |= NLM_F_CAPPED;
- if (nlk_has_extack && extack) {
- if (extack->_msg)
- tlvlen += nla_total_size(strlen(extack->_msg) + 1);
- if (extack->bad_attr)
- tlvlen += nla_total_size(sizeof(u32));
- }
+ if (nlk_has_extack && extack && extack->bad_attr)
+ tlvlen += nla_total_size(sizeof(u32));
} else {
flags |= NLM_F_CAPPED;
@@ -2348,10 +2347,11 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, payload > sizeof(*errmsg) ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
if (nlk_has_extack && extack) {
+ if (extack->_msg) {
+ WARN_ON(nla_put_string(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG,
+ extack->_msg));
+ }
if (err) {
- if (extack->_msg)
- WARN_ON(nla_put_string(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG,
- extack->_msg));
if (extack->bad_attr &&
!WARN_ON((u8 *)extack->bad_attr < in_skb->data ||
(u8 *)extack->bad_attr >= in_skb->data +