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Johannes Berg says:
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netlink: export policy on validation failures
Export the policy used for attribute validation when it fails,
so e.g. for an out-of-range attribute userspace immediately gets
the valid ranges back.
v2 incorporates the suggestion from Jakub to have a function to
estimate the size (netlink_policy_dump_attr_size_estimate()) and
check that it does the right thing on the *normal* policy dumps,
not (just) when calling it from the error scenario.
v3 only addresses a few minor style issues.
v4 fixes up a forgotten 'git add' ... sorry.
v5 is a resend, I messed up v4's cover letter subject (saying v3)
and apparently the second patch didn't go out at all.
Tested using nl80211/iw in a few scenarios, seems to work fine
and return the policy back, e.g.
kernel reports: integer out of range
policy: 04 00 0b 00 0c 00 04 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
^ padding
^ minimum allowed value
policy: 04 00 0b 00 0c 00 05 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00
^ padding
^ maximum allowed value
policy: 08 00 01 00 04 00 00 00
^ type 4 == U32
for an out-of-range case.
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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