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)
commit0a6a3a23ea6efde079a5b77688541a98bf202721
treeec9cd4b088e93a12c26ebf9fcb8b7bf5abe2510d
parent4941b8f0c2b9d88e8a6dacebf8b7faf603b98368
netlink: add NETLINK_CAP_ACK socket option

Since commit c05cdb1b864f ("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