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In some situations some netlink attributes may be used for output only (kernel->userspace) or may be reserved for future use. It's then helpful to be able to prevent userspace from using them in messages sent to the kernel, since they'd otherwise be ignored and any future will become impossible if this happens. Add NLA_REJECT to the policy which does nothing but reject (with EINVAL) validation of any messages containing this attribute. Allow for returning a specific extended ACK error message in the validation_data pointer. While at it clear up the documentation a bit - the NLA_BITFIELD32 documentation was added to the list of len field descriptions. Also, use NL_SET_BAD_ATTR() in one place where it's open-coded. The specific case I have in mind now is a shared nested attribute containing request/response data, and it would be pointless and potentially confusing to have userspace include response data in the messages that actually contain a request. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.