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netlink: allow to pass data pointer to netlink_dump_start() callback
authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:30:16 +0000 (14:30 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:10:44 +0000 (14:10 -0500)
commitfde87ec52bda382d37fb7f9da50aecd2cc6e19ff
treef9dfa5be72432611f63f659fbe07ef4fbd6052bd
parente419a39fb1997467c006b400f7c363ccc27a0a52
netlink: allow to pass data pointer to netlink_dump_start() callback

This patch allows you to pass a data pointer that can be
accessed from the dump callback.

Netfilter is going to use this patch to provide filtered dumps
to user-space. This is specifically interesting in ctnetlink that
may handle lots of conntrack entries. We can save precious
cycles by skipping the conversion to TLV format of conntrack
entries that are not interesting for user-space.

More specifically, ctnetlink will include one operation to allow
to filter the dumping of conntrack entries by ctmark values.

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