/* * Copyright (C) 2008 Tobias Brunner * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your * option) any later version. See . * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * for more details. */ #ifndef KERNEL_NETLINK_SHARED_H_ #define KERNEL_NETLINK_SHARED_H_ #include #include /** * Default buffer size. * * 1024 byte is currently sufficient for all operations. */ #ifndef KERNEL_NETLINK_BUFSIZE #define KERNEL_NETLINK_BUFSIZE 1024 #endif /** * General purpose netlink buffer. * * Some platforms require an enforced aligment to four bytes (e.g. ARM). */ typedef union { struct nlmsghdr hdr; u_char bytes[KERNEL_NETLINK_BUFSIZE]; } netlink_buf_t __attribute__((aligned(RTA_ALIGNTO))); typedef struct netlink_socket_t netlink_socket_t; /** * Wrapper around a netlink socket. */ struct netlink_socket_t { /** * Send a netlink message and wait for a reply. * * @param in netlink message to send * @param out received netlink message * @param out_len length of the received message */ status_t (*send)(netlink_socket_t *this, struct nlmsghdr *in, struct nlmsghdr **out, size_t *out_len); /** * Send a netlink message and wait for its acknowledge. * * @param in netlink message to send */ status_t (*send_ack)(netlink_socket_t *this, struct nlmsghdr *in); /** * Destroy the socket. */ void (*destroy)(netlink_socket_t *this); }; /** * Create a netlink_socket_t object. * * @param protocol protocol type (e.g. NETLINK_XFRM or NETLINK_ROUTE) * @param names optional enum names for Netlink messages * @param parallel support parallel queries on this Netlink socket */ netlink_socket_t *netlink_socket_create(int protocol, enum_name_t *names, bool parallel); /** * Creates an rtattr and adds it to the given netlink message. * * @param hdr netlink message * @param rta_type type of the rtattr * @param data data to add to the rtattr * @param buflen length of the netlink message buffer */ void netlink_add_attribute(struct nlmsghdr *hdr, int rta_type, chunk_t data, size_t buflen); /** * Reserve space in a netlink message for given size and type, returning buffer. * * @param hdr netlink message * @param buflen size of full netlink buffer * @param type RTA type * @param len length of RTA data * @return buffer to len bytes of attribute data, NULL on error */ void* netlink_reserve(struct nlmsghdr *hdr, int buflen, int type, int len); #endif /* KERNEL_NETLINK_SHARED_H_ */