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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/genetlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/genetlink.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h index 897cdba13569..68de579cfe5e 100644 --- a/include/net/genetlink.h +++ b/include/net/genetlink.h @@ -184,6 +184,25 @@ static inline int genlmsg_parse_deprecated(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, } /** + * genlmsg_parse - parse attributes of a genetlink message + * @nlh: netlink message header + * @family: genetlink message family + * @tb: destination array with maxtype+1 elements + * @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected + * @policy: validation policy + * @extack: extended ACK report struct + */ +static inline int genlmsg_parse(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, + const struct genl_family *family, + struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype, + const struct nla_policy *policy, + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack) +{ + return __nlmsg_parse(nlh, family->hdrsize + GENL_HDRLEN, tb, maxtype, + policy, NL_VALIDATE_STRICT, extack); +} + +/** * genl_dump_check_consistent - check if sequence is consistent and advertise if not * @cb: netlink callback structure that stores the sequence number * @user_hdr: user header as returned from genlmsg_put() |