linux/include
David Ahern 89d35528d1 netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumps
Add a new socket option, NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK, that userspace
can use via setsockopt to request strict checking of headers and
attributes on dump requests.

To get dump features such as kernel side filtering based on data in
the header or attributes appended to the dump request, userspace
must call setsockopt() for NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK and a non-zero
value. Since the netlink sock and its flags are private to the
af_netlink code, the strict checking flag is passed to dump handlers
via a flag in the netlink_callback struct.

For old userspace on new kernel there is no impact as all of the data
checks in later patches are wrapped in a check on the new strict flag.

For new userspace on old kernel, the setsockopt will fail and even if
new userspace sets data in the headers and appended attributes the
kernel will silently ignore it. Moving forward when the setsockopt
succeeds, the new userspace on old kernel means the dump request can
pass an attribute the kernel does not understand. The dump will then
fail as the older kernel does not understand it.

New userspace on new kernel setting the socket option gets the benefit
of the improved data dump.

Kernel side the NETLINK_DUMP_STRICT_CHK uapi is converted to a generic
NETLINK_F_STRICT_CHK flag which can potentially be leveraged for tighter
checking on the NEW, DEL, and SET commands.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-08 10:39:04 -07:00
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acpi ACPICA: Update version to 20180810 2018-08-14 23:49:13 +02:00
asm-generic asm-generic: io: Fix ioport_map() for !CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP && CONFIG_INDIRECT_PIO 2018-09-14 09:49:21 +01:00
clocksource
crypto
drm drm/cma-helper: Fix crash in fbdev error path 2018-10-02 13:03:34 +02:00
dt-bindings dt-bindings: net: vsc8531: add two additional LED modes for VSC8584 2018-10-08 10:31:27 -07:00
keys
kvm
linux netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumps 2018-10-08 10:39:04 -07:00
math-emu
media media: v4l: event: Prevent freeing event subscriptions while accessed 2018-10-03 06:32:51 -04:00
memory
misc
net netlink: Add strict version of nlmsg_parse and nla_parse 2018-10-08 10:39:04 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: remove long deprecated pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq() function 2018-08-18 12:30:42 -07:00
ras
rdma Second merge window update 2018-08-23 15:34:48 -07:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20180815 2018-08-15 22:06:26 -07:00
soc net: mscc: ocelot: simplify register access for PLL5 configuration 2018-10-05 14:36:44 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.19 2018-09-17 18:59:21 +02:00
target
trace Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-06 14:43:42 -07:00
uapi netlink: Add new socket option to enable strict checking on dumps 2018-10-08 10:39:04 -07:00
video fbdev changes for v4.19: 2018-08-23 15:44:58 -07:00
xen xen/balloon: add runtime control for scrubbing ballooned out pages 2018-09-14 08:51:10 -04:00