netdev - [PATCH net] diag: fix netlink API attributes

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Date:	Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:57:19 +0100
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Subject: [PATCH net] diag: fix netlink API attributes

The first netlink attribute (value 0) must always be defined as none/unspec.
This is correctly done in inet_diag.h, but other diag interfaces are broken.

Libraries like libnl skip this kind of attributes, thus it's never reported to
the application.

CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
---

Ok, I know that this patch change the API, but it's really painful to have such
broken API, is it really mandatory to live with this?
And the question is: how to avoid to have the same mistake in the next diag API?

 include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h | 1 +
 include/uapi/linux/packet_diag.h  | 1 +
 include/uapi/linux/unix_diag.h    | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h b/include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h
index 4e31db4eea41..d15d5c8f9d9c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink_diag.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct netlink_diag_ring {
 };
 
 enum {
+	NETLINK_DIAG_NONE,
 	NETLINK_DIAG_MEMINFO,
 	NETLINK_DIAG_GROUPS,
 	NETLINK_DIAG_RX_RING,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/packet_diag.h b/include/uapi/linux/packet_diag.h
index b2cc0cd9c4d9..e49fa94b3463 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/packet_diag.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/packet_diag.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct packet_diag_msg {
 };
 
 enum {
+	PACKET_DIAG_UNSPEC,
 	PACKET_DIAG_INFO,
 	PACKET_DIAG_MCLIST,
 	PACKET_DIAG_RX_RING,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/unix_diag.h b/include/uapi/linux/unix_diag.h
index b9e2a6a7446f..b24e9626c704 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/unix_diag.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/unix_diag.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ struct unix_diag_msg {
 };
 
 enum {
+	UNIX_DIAG_NONE,
 	UNIX_DIAG_NAME,
 	UNIX_DIAG_VFS,
 	UNIX_DIAG_PEER,
-- 
1.8.4.1

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