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      1 /*
      2  * lib/genl/genl.c		Generic Netlink
      3  *
      4  *	This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
      5  *	modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
      6  *	License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2.1
      7  *	of the License.
      8  *
      9  * Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Thomas Graf <tgraf (at) suug.ch>
     10  */
     11 
     12 /**
     13  * @defgroup genl Generic Netlink
     14  *
     15  * @par Message Format
     16  * @code
     17  *  <------- NLMSG_ALIGN(hlen) ------> <---- NLMSG_ALIGN(len) --->
     18  * +----------------------------+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+
     19  * |           Header           | Pad |       Payload       | Pad |
     20  * |      struct nlmsghdr       |     |                     |     |
     21  * +----------------------------+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+
     22  * @endcode
     23  * @code
     24  *  <-------- GENL_HDRLEN -------> <--- hdrlen -->
     25  *                                 <------- genlmsg_len(ghdr) ------>
     26  * +------------------------+- - -+---------------+- - -+------------+
     27  * | Generic Netlink Header | Pad | Family Header | Pad | Attributes |
     28  * |    struct genlmsghdr   |     |               |     |            |
     29  * +------------------------+- - -+---------------+- - -+------------+
     30  * genlmsg_data(ghdr)--------------^                     ^
     31  * genlmsg_attrdata(ghdr, hdrlen)-------------------------
     32  * @endcode
     33  *
     34  * @par Example
     35  * @code
     36  * #include <netlink/netlink.h>
     37  * #include <netlink/genl/genl.h>
     38  * #include <netlink/genl/ctrl.h>
     39  *
     40  * struct nl_sock *sock;
     41  * struct nl_msg *msg;
     42  * int family;
     43  *
     44  * // Allocate a new netlink socket
     45  * sock = nl_socket_alloc();
     46  *
     47  * // Connect to generic netlink socket on kernel side
     48  * genl_connect(sock);
     49  *
     50  * // Ask kernel to resolve family name to family id
     51  * family = genl_ctrl_resolve(sock, "generic_netlink_family_name");
     52  *
     53  * // Construct a generic netlink by allocating a new message, fill in
     54  * // the header and append a simple integer attribute.
     55  * msg = nlmsg_alloc();
     56  * genlmsg_put(msg, NL_AUTO_PID, NL_AUTO_SEQ, family, 0, NLM_F_ECHO,
     57  *             CMD_FOO_GET, FOO_VERSION);
     58  * nla_put_u32(msg, ATTR_FOO, 123);
     59  *
     60  * // Send message over netlink socket
     61  * nl_send_auto_complete(sock, msg);
     62  *
     63  * // Free message
     64  * nlmsg_free(msg);
     65  *
     66  * // Prepare socket to receive the answer by specifying the callback
     67  * // function to be called for valid messages.
     68  * nl_socket_modify_cb(sock, NL_CB_VALID, NL_CB_CUSTOM, parse_cb, NULL);
     69  *
     70  * // Wait for the answer and receive it
     71  * nl_recvmsgs_default(sock);
     72  *
     73  * static int parse_cb(struct nl_msg *msg, void *arg)
     74  * {
     75  *     struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_hdr(msg);
     76  *     struct nlattr *attrs[ATTR_MAX+1];
     77  *
     78  *     // Validate message and parse attributes
     79  *     genlmsg_parse(nlh, 0, attrs, ATTR_MAX, policy);
     80  *
     81  *     if (attrs[ATTR_FOO]) {
     82  *         uint32_t value = nla_get_u32(attrs[ATTR_FOO]);
     83  *         ...
     84  *     }
     85  *
     86  *     return 0;
     87  * }
     88  * @endcode
     89  * @{
     90  */
     91 
     92 #include <netlink-generic.h>
     93 #include <netlink/netlink.h>
     94 #include <netlink/genl/genl.h>
     95 #include <netlink/utils.h>
     96 
     97 /**
     98  * @name Socket Creating
     99  * @{
    100  */
    101 
    102 int genl_connect(struct nl_sock *sk)
    103 {
    104 	return nl_connect(sk, NETLINK_GENERIC);
    105 }
    106 
    107 /** @} */
    108 
    109 /**
    110  * @name Sending
    111  * @{
    112  */
    113 
    114 /**
    115  * Send trivial generic netlink message
    116  * @arg sk		Netlink socket.
    117  * @arg family		Generic netlink family
    118  * @arg cmd		Command
    119  * @arg version		Version
    120  * @arg flags		Additional netlink message flags.
    121  *
    122  * Fills out a routing netlink request message and sends it out
    123  * using nl_send_simple().
    124  *
    125  * @return 0 on success or a negative error code.
    126  */
    127 int genl_send_simple(struct nl_sock *sk, int family, int cmd,
    128 		     int version, int flags)
    129 {
    130 	struct genlmsghdr hdr = {
    131 		.cmd = cmd,
    132 		.version = version,
    133 	};
    134 
    135 	return nl_send_simple(sk, family, flags, &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
    136 }
    137 
    138 /** @} */
    139 
    140 
    141 /**
    142  * @name Message Parsing
    143  * @{
    144  */
    145 
    146 int genlmsg_valid_hdr(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen)
    147 {
    148 	struct genlmsghdr *ghdr;
    149 
    150 	if (!nlmsg_valid_hdr(nlh, GENL_HDRLEN))
    151 		return 0;
    152 
    153 	ghdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
    154 	if (genlmsg_len(ghdr) < NLMSG_ALIGN(hdrlen))
    155 		return 0;
    156 
    157 	return 1;
    158 }
    159 
    160 int genlmsg_validate(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen, int maxtype,
    161 		   struct nla_policy *policy)
    162 {
    163 	struct genlmsghdr *ghdr;
    164 
    165 	if (!genlmsg_valid_hdr(nlh, hdrlen))
    166 		return -NLE_MSG_TOOSHORT;
    167 
    168 	ghdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
    169 	return nla_validate(genlmsg_attrdata(ghdr, hdrlen),
    170 			    genlmsg_attrlen(ghdr, hdrlen), maxtype, policy);
    171 }
    172 
    173 int genlmsg_parse(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen, struct nlattr *tb[],
    174 		  int maxtype, struct nla_policy *policy)
    175 {
    176 	struct genlmsghdr *ghdr;
    177 
    178 	if (!genlmsg_valid_hdr(nlh, hdrlen))
    179 		return -NLE_MSG_TOOSHORT;
    180 
    181 	ghdr = nlmsg_data(nlh);
    182 	return nla_parse(tb, maxtype, genlmsg_attrdata(ghdr, hdrlen),
    183 			 genlmsg_attrlen(ghdr, hdrlen), policy);
    184 }
    185 
    186 /**
    187  * Get head of message payload
    188  * @arg gnlh	genetlink messsage header
    189  */
    190 void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
    191 {
    192 	return ((unsigned char *) gnlh + GENL_HDRLEN);
    193 }
    194 
    195 /**
    196  * Get lenght of message payload
    197  * @arg gnlh	genetlink message header
    198  */
    199 int genlmsg_len(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
    200 {
    201 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)((unsigned char *)gnlh -
    202 							NLMSG_HDRLEN);
    203 	return (nlh->nlmsg_len - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
    204 }
    205 
    206 /**
    207  * Get head of attribute data
    208  * @arg gnlh	generic netlink message header
    209  * @arg hdrlen	length of family specific header
    210  */
    211 struct nlattr *genlmsg_attrdata(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh, int hdrlen)
    212 {
    213 	return genlmsg_data(gnlh) + NLMSG_ALIGN(hdrlen);
    214 }
    215 
    216 /**
    217  * Get length of attribute data
    218  * @arg gnlh	generic netlink message header
    219  * @arg hdrlen	length of family specific header
    220  */
    221 int genlmsg_attrlen(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh, int hdrlen)
    222 {
    223 	return genlmsg_len(gnlh) - NLMSG_ALIGN(hdrlen);
    224 }
    225 
    226 /** @} */
    227 
    228 /**
    229  * @name Message Building
    230  * @{
    231  */
    232 
    233 /**
    234  * Add generic netlink header to netlink message
    235  * @arg msg		netlink message
    236  * @arg pid		netlink process id or NL_AUTO_PID
    237  * @arg seq		sequence number of message or NL_AUTO_SEQ
    238  * @arg family		generic netlink family
    239  * @arg hdrlen		length of user specific header
    240  * @arg flags		message flags
    241  * @arg cmd		generic netlink command
    242  * @arg version		protocol version
    243  *
    244  * Returns pointer to user specific header.
    245  */
    246 void *genlmsg_put(struct nl_msg *msg, uint32_t pid, uint32_t seq, int family,
    247 		  int hdrlen, int flags, uint8_t cmd, uint8_t version)
    248 {
    249 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
    250 	struct genlmsghdr hdr = {
    251 		.cmd = cmd,
    252 		.version = version,
    253 	};
    254 
    255 	nlh = nlmsg_put(msg, pid, seq, family, GENL_HDRLEN + hdrlen, flags);
    256 	if (nlh == NULL)
    257 		return NULL;
    258 
    259 	memcpy(nlmsg_data(nlh), &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
    260 	NL_DBG(2, "msg %p: Added generic netlink header cmd=%d version=%d\n",
    261 	       msg, cmd, version);
    262 
    263 	return nlmsg_data(nlh) + GENL_HDRLEN;
    264 }
    265 
    266 /** @} */
    267 
    268 /** @} */
    269