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netlink: advertise incomplete dumps

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Consider the following situation:
 * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first
   round, and four in the second
 * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are
   removed
 * now the second round will not show any entry, and
   even if there is a sequence/generation counter the
   application will not know

To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR
to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't
consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE
message that terminates the dump, and as such above
situation can be detected.

To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink
callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs
to use this new functionality. The correct way to do
that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback
is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for
each new message. The core code will also call this
function for the final MSG_DONE message.

To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function
genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header
from the genetlink user header.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Johannes Berg
2011-06-20 13:40:46 +02:00
committed by John W. Linville
parent c1c3daee97
commit 670dc2833d
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@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr {
#define NLM_F_MULTI 2 /* Multipart message, terminated by NLMSG_DONE */
#define NLM_F_ACK 4 /* Reply with ack, with zero or error code */
#define NLM_F_ECHO 8 /* Echo this request */
#define NLM_F_DUMP_INTR 16 /* Dump was inconsistent due to sequence change */
/* Modifiers to GET request */
#define NLM_F_ROOT 0x100 /* specify tree root */
@@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ struct netlink_callback {
struct netlink_callback *cb);
int (*done)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
int family;
unsigned int prev_seq, seq;
long args[6];
};