[NETLINK]: introduce NLA_BINARY type

This patch introduces a new NLA_BINARY attribute policy type with the
verification of simply checking the maximum length of the payload.

It also fixes a small typo in the example.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Johannes Berg
2007-03-23 11:37:48 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 703315712c
commit d30045a0bc
2 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ static int validate_nla(struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
}
break;
case NLA_BINARY:
if (pt->len && attrlen > pt->len)
return -ERANGE;
break;
default:
if (pt->len)
minlen = pt->len;