[PATCH RFC v1 1/3] net: Adding API to parse IFLA_LINKINFO attribute
From: <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-07 00:37:55
Subsystem:
networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Sainath Grandhi <redacted> Adding rtnl_nla_parse_ifla_info as an exported symbol in rtnetlink.c helps other modules to parse IFLA_LINKINFO attribute Signed-off-by: Sainath Grandhi <redacted> --- include/net/rtnetlink.h | 3 +++ net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
index 21837ca..cb15ddb 100644
--- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h@@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ int rtnl_configure_link(struct net_device *dev, const struct ifinfomsg *ifm); int rtnl_nla_parse_ifla(struct nlattr **tb, const struct nlattr *head, int len, struct netlink_ext_ack *exterr); +int rtnl_nla_parse_ifla_info(struct nlattr **tb, const struct nlattr *head, + int len, struct netlink_ext_ack *exterr); + #define MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK(kind) MODULE_ALIAS("rtnl-link-" kind) #endif
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index a78fd61..0784b7d 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c@@ -1688,6 +1688,14 @@ int rtnl_nla_parse_ifla(struct nlattr **tb, const struct nlattr *head, int len, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtnl_nla_parse_ifla); +int rtnl_nla_parse_ifla_info(struct nlattr **tb, const struct nlattr *head, + int len, struct netlink_ext_ack *exterr) +{ + return nla_parse(tb, IFLA_INFO_MAX, head, len, ifla_info_policy, + exterr); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtnl_nla_parse_ifla_info); + struct net *rtnl_link_get_net(struct net *src_net, struct nlattr *tb[]) { struct net *net;
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