netlink: extended ACK reporting

Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink extended ACK reporting. All "manual" calls to netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and thus don't get extended ACK reporting. Big thanks goes to Pablo Neira Ayuso for not only bringing up the whole topic at netconf (again) but also coming up with the nlattr passing trick and various other ideas. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2026-09-26 18:16:26 +00:00 · 2017-04-12 14:34:04 +02:00 · 2017-04-12 14:34:04 +02:00 · 2d4bc93368
commit 2d4bc93368
parent fb9eb899a6
17 changed files with 153 additions and 34 deletions
--- a/crypto/crypto_user.c
+++ b/crypto/crypto_user.c
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
--- a/net/core/sock_diag.c
+++ b/net/core/sock_diag.c
--- a/net/decnet/netfilter/dn_rtmsg.c
+++ b/net/decnet/netfilter/dn_rtmsg.c
--- a/net/hsr/hsr_netlink.c
+++ b/net/hsr/hsr_netlink.c
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.h
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.h
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c