08724ef699
netlink allows to specify allowed ranges for integer types. Unfortunately, nfnetlink passes integers in big endian, so the existing NLA_POLICY_MAX() cannot be used. At the moment, nfnetlink users, such as nf_tables, need to resort to programmatic checking via helpers such as nft_parse_u32_check(). This is both cumbersome and error prone. This adds NLA_POLICY_MAX_BE which adds range check support for BE16, BE32 and BE64 integers. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.