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netlink: policy: report the big endian attributes

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Paolo pointed out an issue flagged at low priority by Sashiko -
we're currently not handling BE{16,32} attributes in policy dumps.

Commit 3f4285d741 ("netlink: specs: fou: local-v4 and peer-v4 are big
endian") flipped two fou attributes from NLA_U32 to NLA_BE32.
This made them vanish from the policy dump.

Follow the YAML spec format and treat byte order as a property of
a u16 / u32 rather than a type of its own. I don't have a strong
preference either way. The YNL format "feels cleaner" but the
kernel's separate type is easier when handling decoding.
I don't think that the policy type is actually usable for decoding
(since it only contains input types) so I went with YNL and added
the separate attr.

A missing byte order means host order, again like in the YAML specs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ab90f970-0ebb-4c07-b7b1-db3f91395116@redhat.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260912202401.141336-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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