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[libnftables] src: add function nft_rule_nlmsg_build_id

Message ID 1380755692-17878-1-git-send-email-eric@regit.org
State Not Applicable
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Eric Leblond Oct. 2, 2013, 11:14 p.m. UTC 
This patch adds a new function nft_rule_nlmsg_build_id which can
be used to only dump the identifiers of a rule to the netlink
message. This allow to limit the size of the messages when doing
some deletion operation where the other parameters are not used.

Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
---
 include/libnftables/rule.h |  1 +
 src/libnftables.map        |  1 +
 src/rule.c                 | 14 ++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/libnftables/rule.h b/include/libnftables/rule.h
index 9fba9c8..08c9cc4 100644
--- a/include/libnftables/rule.h
+++ b/include/libnftables/rule.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@  uint64_t nft_rule_attr_get_u64(const struct nft_rule *r, uint16_t attr);
 
 void nft_rule_add_expr(struct nft_rule *r, struct nft_rule_expr *expr);
 
+void nft_rule_nlmsg_build_id(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct nft_rule *t);
 void nft_rule_nlmsg_build_payload(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct nft_rule *t);
 
 enum {
diff --git a/src/libnftables.map b/src/libnftables.map
index 1223403..e6cd12c 100644
--- a/src/libnftables.map
+++ b/src/libnftables.map
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@  global:
   nft_rule_parse;
   nft_rule_snprintf;
   nft_rule_nlmsg_build_hdr;
+  nft_rule_nlmsg_build_id;
   nft_rule_nlmsg_build_payload;
   nft_rule_nlmsg_parse;
   nft_rule_add_expr;
diff --git a/src/rule.c b/src/rule.c
index 7f2bce6..f9861da 100644
--- a/src/rule.c
+++ b/src/rule.c
@@ -248,11 +248,8 @@  nft_rule_nlmsg_build_hdr(char *buf, uint16_t cmd, uint16_t family,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nft_rule_nlmsg_build_hdr);
 
-void nft_rule_nlmsg_build_payload(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct nft_rule *r)
+void nft_rule_nlmsg_build_id(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct nft_rule *r)
 {
-	struct nft_rule_expr *expr;
-	struct nlattr *nest;
-
 	if (r->flags & (1 << NFT_RULE_ATTR_TABLE))
 		mnl_attr_put_strz(nlh, NFTA_RULE_TABLE, r->table);
 	if (r->flags & (1 << NFT_RULE_ATTR_CHAIN))
@@ -261,6 +258,15 @@  void nft_rule_nlmsg_build_payload(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct nft_rule *r)
 		mnl_attr_put_u64(nlh, NFTA_RULE_HANDLE, htobe64(r->handle));
 	if (r->flags & (1 << NFT_RULE_ATTR_POSITION))
 		mnl_attr_put_u64(nlh, NFTA_RULE_POSITION, htobe64(r->position));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nft_rule_nlmsg_build_id);
+
+void nft_rule_nlmsg_build_payload(struct nlmsghdr *nlh, struct nft_rule *r)
+{
+	struct nft_rule_expr *expr;
+	struct nlattr *nest;
+
+	nft_rule_nlmsg_build_id(nlh, r);
 
 	if (!list_empty(&r->expr_list)) {
 		nest = mnl_attr_nest_start(nlh, NFTA_RULE_EXPRESSIONS);