1 #ifndef __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H
2 #define __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H
4 #include <linux/genetlink.h>
5 #include <net/netlink.h>
6 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
9 * struct genl_multicast_group - generic netlink multicast group
10 * @name: name of the multicast group, names are per-family
11 * @id: multicast group ID, assigned by the core, to use with
12 * genlmsg_multicast().
13 * @list: list entry for linking
14 * @family: pointer to family, need not be set before registering
16 struct genl_multicast_group
{
17 struct genl_family
*family
; /* private */
18 struct list_head list
; /* private */
19 char name
[GENL_NAMSIZ
];
27 * struct genl_family - generic netlink family
28 * @id: protocol family idenfitier
29 * @hdrsize: length of user specific header in bytes
30 * @name: name of family
31 * @version: protocol version
32 * @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported
33 * @netnsok: set to true if the family can handle network
34 * namespaces and should be presented in all of them
35 * @pre_doit: called before an operation's doit callback, it may
36 * do additional, common, filtering and return an error
37 * @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may
38 * undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks
39 * @attrbuf: buffer to store parsed attributes
40 * @ops_list: list of all assigned operations
41 * @family_list: family list
42 * @mcast_groups: multicast groups list
47 char name
[GENL_NAMSIZ
];
51 int (*pre_doit
)(struct genl_ops
*ops
,
53 struct genl_info
*info
);
54 void (*post_doit
)(struct genl_ops
*ops
,
56 struct genl_info
*info
);
57 struct nlattr
** attrbuf
; /* private */
58 struct list_head ops_list
; /* private */
59 struct list_head family_list
; /* private */
60 struct list_head mcast_groups
; /* private */
64 * struct genl_info - receiving information
65 * @snd_seq: sending sequence number
66 * @snd_pid: netlink pid of sender
67 * @nlhdr: netlink message header
68 * @genlhdr: generic netlink message header
69 * @userhdr: user specific header
70 * @attrs: netlink attributes
71 * @_net: network namespace
72 * @user_ptr: user pointers
77 struct nlmsghdr
* nlhdr
;
78 struct genlmsghdr
* genlhdr
;
80 struct nlattr
** attrs
;
87 static inline struct net
*genl_info_net(struct genl_info
*info
)
89 return read_pnet(&info
->_net
);
92 static inline void genl_info_net_set(struct genl_info
*info
, struct net
*net
)
94 write_pnet(&info
->_net
, net
);
98 * struct genl_ops - generic netlink operations
99 * @cmd: command identifier
100 * @internal_flags: flags used by the family
102 * @policy: attribute validation policy
103 * @doit: standard command callback
104 * @dumpit: callback for dumpers
105 * @done: completion callback for dumps
106 * @ops_list: operations list
112 const struct nla_policy
*policy
;
113 int (*doit
)(struct sk_buff
*skb
,
114 struct genl_info
*info
);
115 int (*dumpit
)(struct sk_buff
*skb
,
116 struct netlink_callback
*cb
);
117 int (*done
)(struct netlink_callback
*cb
);
118 struct list_head ops_list
;
121 extern int genl_register_family(struct genl_family
*family
);
122 extern int genl_register_family_with_ops(struct genl_family
*family
,
123 struct genl_ops
*ops
, size_t n_ops
);
124 extern int genl_unregister_family(struct genl_family
*family
);
125 extern int genl_register_ops(struct genl_family
*, struct genl_ops
*ops
);
126 extern int genl_unregister_ops(struct genl_family
*, struct genl_ops
*ops
);
127 extern int genl_register_mc_group(struct genl_family
*family
,
128 struct genl_multicast_group
*grp
);
129 extern void genl_unregister_mc_group(struct genl_family
*family
,
130 struct genl_multicast_group
*grp
);
133 * genlmsg_put - Add generic netlink header to netlink message
134 * @skb: socket buffer holding the message
135 * @pid: netlink pid the message is addressed to
136 * @seq: sequence number (usually the one of the sender)
137 * @family: generic netlink family
138 * @flags netlink message flags
139 * @cmd: generic netlink command
141 * Returns pointer to user specific header
143 static inline void *genlmsg_put(struct sk_buff
*skb
, u32 pid
, u32 seq
,
144 struct genl_family
*family
, int flags
, u8 cmd
)
146 struct nlmsghdr
*nlh
;
147 struct genlmsghdr
*hdr
;
149 nlh
= nlmsg_put(skb
, pid
, seq
, family
->id
, GENL_HDRLEN
+
150 family
->hdrsize
, flags
);
154 hdr
= nlmsg_data(nlh
);
156 hdr
->version
= family
->version
;
159 return (char *) hdr
+ GENL_HDRLEN
;
163 * genlmsg_nlhdr - Obtain netlink header from user specified header
164 * @user_hdr: user header as returned from genlmsg_put()
165 * @family: generic netlink family
167 * Returns pointer to netlink header.
169 static inline struct nlmsghdr
*genlmsg_nlhdr(void *user_hdr
,
170 struct genl_family
*family
)
172 return (struct nlmsghdr
*)((char *)user_hdr
-
179 * genl_dump_check_consistent - check if sequence is consistent and advertise if not
180 * @cb: netlink callback structure that stores the sequence number
181 * @user_hdr: user header as returned from genlmsg_put()
182 * @family: generic netlink family
184 * Cf. nl_dump_check_consistent(), this just provides a wrapper to make it
185 * simpler to use with generic netlink.
187 static inline void genl_dump_check_consistent(struct netlink_callback
*cb
,
189 struct genl_family
*family
)
191 nl_dump_check_consistent(cb
, genlmsg_nlhdr(user_hdr
, family
));
195 * genlmsg_put_reply - Add generic netlink header to a reply message
196 * @skb: socket buffer holding the message
197 * @info: receiver info
198 * @family: generic netlink family
199 * @flags: netlink message flags
200 * @cmd: generic netlink command
202 * Returns pointer to user specific header
204 static inline void *genlmsg_put_reply(struct sk_buff
*skb
,
205 struct genl_info
*info
,
206 struct genl_family
*family
,
209 return genlmsg_put(skb
, info
->snd_pid
, info
->snd_seq
, family
,
214 * genlmsg_end - Finalize a generic netlink message
215 * @skb: socket buffer the message is stored in
216 * @hdr: user specific header
218 static inline int genlmsg_end(struct sk_buff
*skb
, void *hdr
)
220 return nlmsg_end(skb
, hdr
- GENL_HDRLEN
- NLMSG_HDRLEN
);
224 * genlmsg_cancel - Cancel construction of a generic netlink message
225 * @skb: socket buffer the message is stored in
226 * @hdr: generic netlink message header
228 static inline void genlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff
*skb
, void *hdr
)
231 nlmsg_cancel(skb
, hdr
- GENL_HDRLEN
- NLMSG_HDRLEN
);
235 * genlmsg_multicast_netns - multicast a netlink message to a specific netns
236 * @net: the net namespace
237 * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
238 * @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
239 * @group: multicast group id
240 * @flags: allocation flags
242 static inline int genlmsg_multicast_netns(struct net
*net
, struct sk_buff
*skb
,
243 u32 pid
, unsigned int group
, gfp_t flags
)
245 return nlmsg_multicast(net
->genl_sock
, skb
, pid
, group
, flags
);
249 * genlmsg_multicast - multicast a netlink message to the default netns
250 * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
251 * @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
252 * @group: multicast group id
253 * @flags: allocation flags
255 static inline int genlmsg_multicast(struct sk_buff
*skb
, u32 pid
,
256 unsigned int group
, gfp_t flags
)
258 return genlmsg_multicast_netns(&init_net
, skb
, pid
, group
, flags
);
262 * genlmsg_multicast_allns - multicast a netlink message to all net namespaces
263 * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
264 * @pid: own netlink pid to avoid sending to yourself
265 * @group: multicast group id
266 * @flags: allocation flags
268 * This function must hold the RTNL or rcu_read_lock().
270 int genlmsg_multicast_allns(struct sk_buff
*skb
, u32 pid
,
271 unsigned int group
, gfp_t flags
);
274 * genlmsg_unicast - unicast a netlink message
275 * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
276 * @pid: netlink pid of the destination socket
278 static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct net
*net
, struct sk_buff
*skb
, u32 pid
)
280 return nlmsg_unicast(net
->genl_sock
, skb
, pid
);
284 * genlmsg_reply - reply to a request
285 * @skb: netlink message to be sent back
286 * @info: receiver information
288 static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff
*skb
, struct genl_info
*info
)
290 return genlmsg_unicast(genl_info_net(info
), skb
, info
->snd_pid
);
294 * gennlmsg_data - head of message payload
295 * @gnlh: genetlink message header
297 static inline void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr
*gnlh
)
299 return ((unsigned char *) gnlh
+ GENL_HDRLEN
);
303 * genlmsg_len - length of message payload
304 * @gnlh: genetlink message header
306 static inline int genlmsg_len(const struct genlmsghdr
*gnlh
)
308 struct nlmsghdr
*nlh
= (struct nlmsghdr
*)((unsigned char *)gnlh
-
310 return (nlh
->nlmsg_len
- GENL_HDRLEN
- NLMSG_HDRLEN
);
314 * genlmsg_msg_size - length of genetlink message not including padding
315 * @payload: length of message payload
317 static inline int genlmsg_msg_size(int payload
)
319 return GENL_HDRLEN
+ payload
;
323 * genlmsg_total_size - length of genetlink message including padding
324 * @payload: length of message payload
326 static inline int genlmsg_total_size(int payload
)
328 return NLMSG_ALIGN(genlmsg_msg_size(payload
));
332 * genlmsg_new - Allocate a new generic netlink message
333 * @payload: size of the message payload
334 * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
336 static inline struct sk_buff
*genlmsg_new(size_t payload
, gfp_t flags
)
338 return nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(payload
), flags
);
342 #endif /* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */