genetlink: Add genlmsg_parse() helper function.
The first user will be the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index f24aa83..d5a9a8b 100644
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -206,6 +206,23 @@
}
/**
+ * genlmsg_parse - parse attributes of a genetlink message
+ * @nlh: netlink message header
+ * @family: genetlink message family
+ * @tb: destination array with maxtype+1 elements
+ * @maxtype: maximum attribute type to be expected
+ * @policy: validation policy
+ * */
+static inline int genlmsg_parse(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+ const struct genl_family *family,
+ struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
+ const struct nla_policy *policy)
+{
+ return nlmsg_parse(nlh, family->hdrsize + GENL_HDRLEN, tb, maxtype,
+ policy);
+}
+
+/**
* genl_dump_check_consistent - check if sequence is consistent and advertise if not
* @cb: netlink callback structure that stores the sequence number
* @user_hdr: user header as returned from genlmsg_put()