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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>2010-11-16 18:52:32 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-11-16 18:52:32 +0100
commit3654654f7aa79a37dde130afb7409c55b11807e7 (patch)
tree4e65c0d211a6cc748509b7f3b2da7c45b05d3266 /include/net/netlink.h
parentipv6: fix missing in6_ifa_put in addrconf (diff)
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netlink: let nlmsg and nla functions take pointer-to-const args
The changed functions do not modify the NL messages and/or attributes at all. They should use const (similar to strchr), so that callers which have a const nlmsg/nlattr around can make use of them without casting. While at it, constify a data array. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/netlink.h21
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netlink.h b/include/net/netlink.h
index 9801c55de5d6..373f1a900cf4 100644
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -225,13 +225,15 @@ extern int nlmsg_notify(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
u32 pid, unsigned int group, int report,
gfp_t flags);
-extern int nla_validate(struct nlattr *head, int len, int maxtype,
+extern int nla_validate(const struct nlattr *head,
+ int len, int maxtype,
const struct nla_policy *policy);
-extern int nla_parse(struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
- struct nlattr *head, int len,
+extern int nla_parse(struct nlattr **tb, int maxtype,
+ const struct nlattr *head, int len,
const struct nla_policy *policy);
extern int nla_policy_len(const struct nla_policy *, int);
-extern struct nlattr * nla_find(struct nlattr *head, int len, int attrtype);
+extern struct nlattr * nla_find(const struct nlattr *head,
+ int len, int attrtype);
extern size_t nla_strlcpy(char *dst, const struct nlattr *nla,
size_t dstsize);
extern int nla_memcpy(void *dest, const struct nlattr *src, int count);
@@ -346,7 +348,8 @@ static inline int nlmsg_ok(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int remaining)
* Returns the next netlink message in the message stream and
* decrements remaining by the size of the current message.
*/
-static inline struct nlmsghdr *nlmsg_next(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int *remaining)
+static inline struct nlmsghdr *
+nlmsg_next(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int *remaining)
{
int totlen = NLMSG_ALIGN(nlh->nlmsg_len);
@@ -398,7 +401,8 @@ static inline struct nlattr *nlmsg_find_attr(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
* @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected
* @policy: validation policy
*/
-static inline int nlmsg_validate(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen, int maxtype,
+static inline int nlmsg_validate(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+ int hdrlen, int maxtype,
const struct nla_policy *policy)
{
if (nlh->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(hdrlen))
@@ -727,7 +731,8 @@ static inline struct nlattr *nla_next(const struct nlattr *nla, int *remaining)
*
* Returns the first attribute which matches the specified type.
*/
-static inline struct nlattr *nla_find_nested(struct nlattr *nla, int attrtype)
+static inline struct nlattr *
+nla_find_nested(const struct nlattr *nla, int attrtype)
{
return nla_find(nla_data(nla), nla_len(nla), attrtype);
}
@@ -1032,7 +1037,7 @@ static inline void nla_nest_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *start)
*
* Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.
*/
-static inline int nla_validate_nested(struct nlattr *start, int maxtype,
+static inline int nla_validate_nested(const struct nlattr *start, int maxtype,
const struct nla_policy *policy)
{
return nla_validate(nla_data(start), nla_len(start), maxtype, policy);