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| author | Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> | 2014-04-22 21:31:54 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-04-22 21:42:26 -0400 |
| commit | 4f520900522fd596e336c07e9aafd5b7a9564235 (patch) | |
| tree | 324137d33d9fe83adba3b0a96026f645fe7b12f1 /include/linux/netlink.h | |
| parent | bfe4bc71c64a34813a7bde0ad4d28486679ac3fe (diff) | |
netlink: have netlink per-protocol bind function return an error code.
Have the netlink per-protocol optional bind function return an int error code
rather than void to signal a failure.
This will enable netlink protocols to perform extra checks including
capabilities and permissions verifications when updating memberships in
multicast groups.
In netlink_bind() and netlink_setsockopt() the call to the per-protocol bind
function was moved above the multicast group update to prevent any access to
the multicast socket groups before checking with the per-protocol bind
function. This will enable the per-protocol bind function to be used to check
permissions which could be denied before making them available, and to avoid
the messy job of undoing the addition should the per-protocol bind function
fail.
The netfilter subsystem seems to be the only one currently using the
per-protocol bind function.
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netlink.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h index aad8eeaf416d..5146ce066498 100644 --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ struct netlink_kernel_cfg { unsigned int flags; void (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb); struct mutex *cb_mutex; - void (*bind)(int group); + int (*bind)(int group); + void (*unbind)(int group); bool (*compare)(struct net *net, struct sock *sk); }; |