netlink: add validation function to policy

Add the ability to have an arbitrary validation function attached
to a netlink policy that doesn't already use the validation_data
pointer in another way.

This can be useful to validate for example the content of a binary
attribute, like in nl80211 the "(information) elements", which must
be valid streams of "u8 type, u8 length, u8 value[length]".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c
index 5670e4b7dfef..1e900bb414ef 100644
--- a/lib/nlattr.c
+++ b/lib/nlattr.c
@@ -300,6 +300,13 @@ static int validate_nla(const struct nlattr *nla, int maxtype,
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 		break;
+	case NLA_VALIDATE_FUNCTION:
+		if (pt->validate) {
+			err = pt->validate(nla, extack);
+			if (err)
+				return err;
+		}
+		break;
 	}
 
 	return 0;