netdev - [PATCH net-next v4 02/12] net: rtnetlink: add helper to extract msg type's kind

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Message-Id: <20220413105202.2616106-3-razor@blackwall.org>
Date:   Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:51:52 +0300
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dsahern@...nel.org, roopa@...dia.com, idosch@...sch.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v4 02/12] net: rtnetlink: add helper to extract msg type's kind

Add a helper which extracts the msg type's kind using the kind mask (0x3).

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
---
v4: new patch

 include/net/rtnetlink.h | 6 ++++++
 net/core/rtnetlink.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
index 78712b51f3da..c51c5ff7f7e2 100644
--- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ enum rtnl_kinds {
 	RTNL_KIND_GET,
 	RTNL_KIND_SET
 };
+#define RTNL_KIND_MASK 0x3
+
+static inline enum rtnl_kinds rtnl_msgtype_kind(int msgtype)
+{
+	return msgtype & RTNL_KIND_MASK;
+}
 
 void rtnl_register(int protocol, int msgtype,
 		   rtnl_doit_func, rtnl_dumpit_func, unsigned int flags);
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 2c36c9dc9b62..beda4a7da062 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -5947,7 +5947,7 @@ static int rtnetlink_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 		return 0;
 
 	family = ((struct rtgenmsg *)nlmsg_data(nlh))->rtgen_family;
-	kind = type&3;
+	kind = rtnl_msgtype_kind(type);
 
 	if (kind != RTNL_KIND_GET && !netlink_net_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
-- 
2.35.1