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netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket option
authorChristophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@gmail.com>
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:07:48 +0000 (07:07 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 29 Aug 2015 05:25:42 +0000 (22:25 -0700)
commitf7b44623554d5cc2115c44076ec5766539ffcca9
treeec9cd4b088e93a12c26ebf9fcb8b7bf5abe2510d
parenta774786688ee352e4f1ac8a9b81439ded1044125
netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket option

Since commit 7319403432a7 ("netlink: allow large data transfers from
user-space"), the kernel may fail to allocate the necessary room for the
acknowledgment message back to userspace. This patch introduces a new
socket option that trims off the payload of the original netlink message.

The netlink message header is still included, so the user can guess from
the sequence number what is the message that has triggered the
acknowledgment.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Ricard <christophe-h.ricard@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
net/netlink/af_netlink.c