flow_offload: add flow action infrastructure

This new infrastructure defines the nic actions that you can perform
from existing network drivers. This infrastructure allows us to avoid a
direct dependency with the native software TC action representation.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/flow_offload.c b/net/core/flow_offload.c
index 2fbf6903d2f6..c3a00eac4804 100644
--- a/net/core/flow_offload.c
+++ b/net/core/flow_offload.c
@@ -3,9 +3,19 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <net/flow_offload.h>
 
-struct flow_rule *flow_rule_alloc(void)
+struct flow_rule *flow_rule_alloc(unsigned int num_actions)
 {
-	return kzalloc(sizeof(struct flow_rule), GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct flow_rule *rule;
+
+	rule = kzalloc(sizeof(struct flow_rule) +
+		       sizeof(struct flow_action_entry) * num_actions,
+		       GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!rule)
+		return NULL;
+
+	rule->action.num_entries = num_actions;
+
+	return rule;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flow_rule_alloc);