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    netlink: add nested array policy validation · 1501d135
    Johannes Berg authored
    Sometimes nested netlink attributes are just used as arrays, with
    the nla_type() of each not being used; we have this in nl80211 and
    e.g. NFTA_SET_ELEM_LIST_ELEMENTS.
    
    Add the ability to validate this type of message directly in the
    policy, by adding the type NLA_NESTED_ARRAY which does exactly
    this: require a first level of nesting but ignore the attribute
    type, and then inside each require a second level of nested and
    validate those attributes against a given policy (if present).
    
    Note that some nested array types actually require that all of
    the entries have the same index, this is possible to express in
    a nested policy already, apart from the validation that only the
    one allowed type is used.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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