linux/drivers/infiniband/hw
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
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bnxt_re 5.1 Merge Window Pull Request 2019-03-09 15:53:03 -08:00
cxgb3 RDMA: Handle ucontext allocations by IB/core 2019-02-22 14:11:37 -07:00
cxgb4 netlink: make nla_nest_start() add NLA_F_NESTED flag 2019-04-27 17:03:44 -04:00
hfi1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
hns RDMA/hns: Bugfix for SCC hem free 2019-04-08 13:42:16 -03:00
i40iw i40iw: Avoid panic when handling the inetdev event 2019-03-17 21:40:40 -03:00
mlx4 IB/mlx4: Fix race condition between catas error reset and aliasguid flows 2019-03-17 21:40:39 -03:00
mlx5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
mthca RDMA: Handle ucontext allocations by IB/core 2019-02-22 14:11:37 -07:00
nes ipv4: Prepare rtable for IPv6 gateway 2019-04-08 15:22:40 -07:00
ocrdma RDMA: Handle ucontext allocations by IB/core 2019-02-22 14:11:37 -07:00
qedr RDMA: Handle ucontext allocations by IB/core 2019-02-22 14:11:37 -07:00
qib drivers/IB,qib: Fix pinned/locked limit check in qib_get_user_pages() 2019-02-20 14:42:41 -07:00
usnic RDMA: Handle ucontext allocations by IB/core 2019-02-22 14:11:37 -07:00
vmw_pvrdma RDMA/vmw_pvrdma: Fix memory leak on pvrdma_pci_remove 2019-04-08 13:04:46 -03:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00