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authorTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>2015-12-15 15:41:37 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-12-05 11:20:46 +0100
commit142afbc6b2f33832f332ce5b561aa817edfff0b4 (patch)
treee1aafbe5f172b7a44fd38a084083d9bf54910228 /include
parentb42518053ffd221d79cff2df8c0257db88a71334 (diff)
netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump
commit fc9e50f5a5a4e1fa9ba2756f745a13e693cf6a06 upstream. The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in the done callback. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h2
-rw-r--r--include/net/genetlink.h2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 9e572daa15d5..de422dd8e3a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ netlink_skb_clone(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
struct netlink_callback {
struct sk_buff *skb;
const struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+ int (*start)(struct netlink_callback *);
int (*dump)(struct sk_buff * skb,
struct netlink_callback *cb);
int (*done)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr *
__nlmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq, int type, int len, int flags);
struct netlink_dump_control {
+ int (*start)(struct netlink_callback *);
int (*dump)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *);
int (*done)(struct netlink_callback *);
void *data;
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index af10c2cf8a1d..048a24bc7719 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ static inline void genl_info_net_set(struct genl_info *info, struct net *net)
* @flags: flags
* @policy: attribute validation policy
* @doit: standard command callback
+ * @start: start callback for dumps
* @dumpit: callback for dumpers
* @done: completion callback for dumps
* @ops_list: operations list
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ struct genl_ops {
const struct nla_policy *policy;
int (*doit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct genl_info *info);
+ int (*start)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
int (*dumpit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
struct netlink_callback *cb);
int (*done)(struct netlink_callback *cb);