netdev - [PATCH v2 net-next 01/23] netlink: Pass extack to dump handlers

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Message-Id: <20181008031644.15989-2-dsahern@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun,  7 Oct 2018 20:16:22 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     christian@...uner.io, jbenc@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 01/23] netlink: Pass extack to dump handlers

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Declare extack in netlink_dump and pass to dump handlers via
netlink_callback. Add any extack message after the dump_done_errno
allowing error messages to be returned. This will be useful when
strict checking is done on dump requests, returning why the dump
fails EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
---
 include/linux/netlink.h  |  1 +
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 71f121b66ca8..88c8a2d83eb3 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ struct netlink_callback {
 	void			*data;
 	/* the module that dump function belong to */
 	struct module		*module;
+	struct netlink_ext_ack	*extack;
 	u16			family;
 	u16			min_dump_alloc;
 	unsigned int		prev_seq, seq;
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index e3a0538ec0be..7ac585f33a9e 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2171,6 +2171,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__nlmsg_put);
 static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct netlink_sock *nlk = nlk_sk(sk);
+	struct netlink_ext_ack extack = {};
 	struct netlink_callback *cb;
 	struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
@@ -2222,8 +2223,11 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
 	skb_reserve(skb, skb_tailroom(skb) - alloc_size);
 	netlink_skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
 
-	if (nlk->dump_done_errno > 0)
+	if (nlk->dump_done_errno > 0) {
+		cb->extack = &extack;
 		nlk->dump_done_errno = cb->dump(skb, cb);
+		cb->extack = NULL;
+	}
 
 	if (nlk->dump_done_errno > 0 ||
 	    skb_tailroom(skb) < nlmsg_total_size(sizeof(nlk->dump_done_errno))) {
@@ -2246,6 +2250,12 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
 	memcpy(nlmsg_data(nlh), &nlk->dump_done_errno,
 	       sizeof(nlk->dump_done_errno));
 
+	if (extack._msg && nlk->flags & NETLINK_F_EXT_ACK) {
+		nlh->nlmsg_flags |= NLM_F_ACK_TLVS;
+		if (!nla_put_string(skb, NLMSGERR_ATTR_MSG, extack._msg))
+			nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
+	}
+
 	if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 	else
-- 
2.11.0