From 7b1883cefc288b2725966357edd2d8f321605622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:42:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] genetlink: Add genlmsg_parse() helper function.
The first user will be the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
include/net/genetlink.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index f24aa83b80b6..d5a9a8b5af37 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -205,6 +205,23 @@ static inline struct nlmsghdr *genlmsg_nlhdr(void *user_hdr,
NLMSG_HDRLEN);
}
+/**
+ * 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
+ * */
+static inline int genlmsg_parse(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+ const struct genl_family *family,
+ struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
+ const struct nla_policy *policy)
+{
+ return nlmsg_parse(nlh, family->hdrsize + GENL_HDRLEN, tb, maxtype,
+ policy);
+}
+
/**
* genl_dump_check_consistent - check if sequence is consistent and advertise if not
* @cb: netlink callback structure that stores the sequence number