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Johannes Berg says: ==================== netlink: allow NLA_BINARY length range validation In quite a few places (perhaps particularly in wireless) we need to validation an NLA_BINARY attribute with both a minimum and a maximum length. Currently, we can do either of the two, but not both, given that we have NLA_MIN_LEN (minimum length) and NLA_BINARY (maximum). Extend the range mechanisms that we use for integer validation to apply to NLA_BINARY as well. After converting everything to use NLA_POLICY_MIN_LEN() we can thus get rid of the NLA_MIN_LEN type since that's now a special case of NLA_BINARY with a minimum length validation. Similarly, NLA_EXACT_LEN can be specified using NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN() and also maps to the new NLA_BINARY validation (min == max == desired length). Finally, NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN_WARN() also gets to be a somewhat special case of this. I haven't included the patch here now that converts nl82011 to use this because it doesn't apply without another cleanup patch, but we can remove a number of hand-coded min/max length checks and get better error messages from the general validation code while doing that. As I had originally built the netlink policy export to userspace in a way that has min/max length for NLA_BINARY (for the types that we used to call NLA_MIN_LEN, NLA_BINARY and NLA_EXACT_LEN) anyway, it doesn't really change anything there except that now there's a chance that userspace sees min length < max length, which previously wasn't possible. v2: * fix the min<max comment to correctly say min<=max ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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