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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-28 04:21:18 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-28 04:26:01 +0100
commit82268da1b130f763d22d04f7d016bbf6fc8815c2 (patch)
tree9803f361556d10708313e980428e63a18162e667 /lib
parent6e15cf04860074ad032e88c306bea656bbdd0f22 (diff)
parent5d80f8e5a9dc9c9a94d4aeaa567e219a808b8a4a (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/time_64.c drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c Manual merge to resolve build warning due to phys_addr_t type change on x86: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/nlattr.c27
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index 80009a24e21d..c4706eb98d3d 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -133,6 +133,32 @@ errout:
}
/**
+ * nla_policy_len - Determin the max. length of a policy
+ * @policy: policy to use
+ * @n: number of policies
+ *
+ * Determines the max. length of the policy. It is currently used
+ * to allocated Netlink buffers roughly the size of the actual
+ * message.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.
+ */
+int
+nla_policy_len(const struct nla_policy *p, int n)
+{
+ int i, len = 0;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ if (p->len)
+ len += nla_total_size(p->len);
+ else if (nla_attr_minlen[p->type])
+ len += nla_total_size(nla_attr_minlen[p->type]);
+ }
+
+ return len;
+}
+
+/**
* nla_parse - Parse a stream of attributes into a tb buffer
* @tb: destination array with maxtype+1 elements
* @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected
@@ -467,6 +493,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_append);
#endif
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_validate);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_policy_len);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_parse);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_find);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nla_strlcpy);