Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
     to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.

   - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.

   - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
     describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
     Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.

   - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.

   - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
     boot.

   - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.

   - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.

   - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.

  Protocols:

   - Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).

   - Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
     on socket by socket basis.

   - Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.

   - Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
     manager.

   - IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
     collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).

   - Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).

   - ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.

   - Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.

   - Remove static WEP support.

   - Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
     reporting.

   - WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).

  BPF:

   - Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
     precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
     kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.

   - Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
     timestamp metadata.

   - Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
     better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
     metadata.

   - Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.

   - Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
     bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.

   - Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
     kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.

   - Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
     livepatch and BPF.

   - Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
     programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
     different time intervals.

   - Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.

   - Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.

   - Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.

   - Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
     memory accounting for container environments.

  Netfilter:

   - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
     years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
     /proc interface installed by this target.

   - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
     existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
     referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.

  Driver API:

   - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
     IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.

   - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.

   - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.

   - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
     Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
     shared medium Ethernet.

   - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
     preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.

   - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.

   - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
     de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
     multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
     factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.

   - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).

   - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
     messages with notifications for debug.

   - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.

   - Add support for per action HW stats in TC.

   - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
     a specific point in the action chain).

   - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
     modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
     Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
     using nl80211 interface instead.

   - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
     error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
     including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
     CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
      - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
      - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
      - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
      - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
      - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux

   - WiFi:
      - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
      - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)

   - CAN:
      - Renesas R-Car V4H

  Drivers:

   - Bluetooth:
      - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (1G, igc):
         - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
      - Intel (100G, ice):
         - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
         - multi-buffer XDP support
         - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
         - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
         - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
         - more efficient crypto key management method
         - multi-port eswitch support
      - Netronome/Corigine:
         - add DCB IEEE support
         - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
      - Freescale/NXP (enetc):
         - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
         - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
         - support MAC Merge layer
      - Other NICs:
         - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
         - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
         - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
         - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
         - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
         - cpts: support pulse-per-second output
         - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
         - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
         - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
         - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
         - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
         - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
         - tsnep: XDP support

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
         - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
           the implicit rules always active
         - add support for egress DSCP rewrite
         - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
         - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
           etc.)
         - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
         - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
           8.6.5.1)

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - add MAB (port auth) offload support
         - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
      - NXP (ocelot):
         - support MAC Merge layer
         - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
      - Microchip:
         - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
         - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
         - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
         - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
         - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
      - other:
         - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
         - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
      - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
        on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
        BIOS to the firmware.

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - IPQ5018 support
      - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
      - channel 177 support

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - per-PHY LED support
      - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
      - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
      - switch to using page pool allocator

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance

   - Mobile:
      - rmnet: support TX aggregation"

* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
  page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
  net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
  ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
  xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
  sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
  selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
  net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
  net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
  net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
  net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
  net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
  net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
  net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
  net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
  net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
  sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
  sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
  net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
  net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
  net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
  ...

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diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed4622dd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -0,0 +1,524 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H
+#define __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H
+
+#include <linux/genetlink.h>
+#include <net/netlink.h>
+#include <net/net_namespace.h>
+
+#define GENLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE (NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE - GENL_HDRLEN)
+
+/**
+ * struct genl_multicast_group - generic netlink multicast group
+ * @name: name of the multicast group, names are per-family
+ * @flags: GENL_* flags (%GENL_ADMIN_PERM or %GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM)
+ */
+struct genl_multicast_group {
+	char			name[GENL_NAMSIZ];
+	u8			flags;
+};
+
+struct genl_split_ops;
+struct genl_info;
+
+/**
+ * struct genl_family - generic netlink family
+ * @hdrsize: length of user specific header in bytes
+ * @name: name of family
+ * @version: protocol version
+ * @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported
+ * @policy: netlink policy
+ * @netnsok: set to true if the family can handle network
+ *	namespaces and should be presented in all of them
+ * @parallel_ops: operations can be called in parallel and aren't
+ *	synchronized by the core genetlink code
+ * @pre_doit: called before an operation's doit callback, it may
+ *	do additional, common, filtering and return an error
+ * @post_doit: called after an operation's doit callback, it may
+ *	undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks
+ * @module: pointer to the owning module (set to THIS_MODULE)
+ * @mcgrps: multicast groups used by this family
+ * @n_mcgrps: number of multicast groups
+ * @resv_start_op: first operation for which reserved fields of the header
+ *	can be validated and policies are required (see below);
+ *	new families should leave this field at zero
+ * @ops: the operations supported by this family
+ * @n_ops: number of operations supported by this family
+ * @small_ops: the small-struct operations supported by this family
+ * @n_small_ops: number of small-struct operations supported by this family
+ * @split_ops: the split do/dump form of operation definition
+ * @n_split_ops: number of entries in @split_ops, not that with split do/dump
+ *	ops the number of entries is not the same as number of commands
+ *
+ * Attribute policies (the combination of @policy and @maxattr fields)
+ * can be attached at the family level or at the operation level.
+ * If both are present the per-operation policy takes precedence.
+ * For operations before @resv_start_op lack of policy means that the core
+ * will perform no attribute parsing or validation. For newer operations
+ * if policy is not provided core will reject all TLV attributes.
+ */
+struct genl_family {
+	unsigned int		hdrsize;
+	char			name[GENL_NAMSIZ];
+	unsigned int		version;
+	unsigned int		maxattr;
+	u8			netnsok:1;
+	u8			parallel_ops:1;
+	u8			n_ops;
+	u8			n_small_ops;
+	u8			n_split_ops;
+	u8			n_mcgrps;
+	u8			resv_start_op;
+	const struct nla_policy *policy;
+	int			(*pre_doit)(const struct genl_split_ops *ops,
+					    struct sk_buff *skb,
+					    struct genl_info *info);
+	void			(*post_doit)(const struct genl_split_ops *ops,
+					     struct sk_buff *skb,
+					     struct genl_info *info);
+	const struct genl_ops *	ops;
+	const struct genl_small_ops *small_ops;
+	const struct genl_split_ops *split_ops;
+	const struct genl_multicast_group *mcgrps;
+	struct module		*module;
+
+/* private: internal use only */
+	/* protocol family identifier */
+	int			id;
+	/* starting number of multicast group IDs in this family */
+	unsigned int		mcgrp_offset;
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct genl_info - receiving information
+ * @snd_seq: sending sequence number
+ * @snd_portid: netlink portid of sender
+ * @nlhdr: netlink message header
+ * @genlhdr: generic netlink message header
+ * @userhdr: user specific header
+ * @attrs: netlink attributes
+ * @_net: network namespace
+ * @user_ptr: user pointers
+ * @extack: extended ACK report struct
+ */
+struct genl_info {
+	u32			snd_seq;
+	u32			snd_portid;
+	struct nlmsghdr *	nlhdr;
+	struct genlmsghdr *	genlhdr;
+	void *			userhdr;
+	struct nlattr **	attrs;
+	possible_net_t		_net;
+	void *			user_ptr[2];
+	struct netlink_ext_ack *extack;
+};
+
+static inline struct net *genl_info_net(struct genl_info *info)
+{
+	return read_pnet(&info->_net);
+}
+
+static inline void genl_info_net_set(struct genl_info *info, struct net *net)
+{
+	write_pnet(&info->_net, net);
+}
+
+#define GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info, msg) NL_SET_ERR_MSG((info)->extack, msg)
+
+#define GENL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info, msg, args...) \
+	NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT((info)->extack, msg, ##args)
+
+/* Report that a root attribute is missing */
+#define GENL_REQ_ATTR_CHECK(info, attr) ({				\
+	struct genl_info *__info = (info);				\
+									\
+	NL_REQ_ATTR_CHECK(__info->extack, NULL, __info->attrs, (attr)); \
+})
+
+enum genl_validate_flags {
+	GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT		= BIT(0),
+	GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP			= BIT(1),
+	GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP_STRICT		= BIT(2),
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct genl_small_ops - generic netlink operations (small version)
+ * @cmd: command identifier
+ * @internal_flags: flags used by the family
+ * @flags: GENL_* flags (%GENL_ADMIN_PERM or %GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM)
+ * @validate: validation flags from enum genl_validate_flags
+ * @doit: standard command callback
+ * @dumpit: callback for dumpers
+ *
+ * This is a cut-down version of struct genl_ops for users who don't need
+ * most of the ancillary infra and want to save space.
+ */
+struct genl_small_ops {
+	int	(*doit)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info);
+	int	(*dumpit)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb);
+	u8	cmd;
+	u8	internal_flags;
+	u8	flags;
+	u8	validate;
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct genl_ops - generic netlink operations
+ * @cmd: command identifier
+ * @internal_flags: flags used by the family
+ * @flags: GENL_* flags (%GENL_ADMIN_PERM or %GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM)
+ * @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported
+ * @policy: netlink policy (takes precedence over family policy)
+ * @validate: validation flags from enum genl_validate_flags
+ * @doit: standard command callback
+ * @start: start callback for dumps
+ * @dumpit: callback for dumpers
+ * @done: completion callback for dumps
+ */
+struct genl_ops {
+	int		       (*doit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				       struct genl_info *info);
+	int		       (*start)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
+	int		       (*dumpit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
+					 struct netlink_callback *cb);
+	int		       (*done)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
+	const struct nla_policy *policy;
+	unsigned int		maxattr;
+	u8			cmd;
+	u8			internal_flags;
+	u8			flags;
+	u8			validate;
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct genl_split_ops - generic netlink operations (do/dump split version)
+ * @cmd: command identifier
+ * @internal_flags: flags used by the family
+ * @flags: GENL_* flags (%GENL_ADMIN_PERM or %GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM)
+ * @validate: validation flags from enum genl_validate_flags
+ * @policy: netlink policy (takes precedence over family policy)
+ * @maxattr: maximum number of attributes supported
+ *
+ * Do callbacks:
+ * @pre_doit: called before an operation's @doit callback, it may
+ *	do additional, common, filtering and return an error
+ * @doit: standard command callback
+ * @post_doit: called after an operation's @doit callback, it may
+ *	undo operations done by pre_doit, for example release locks
+ *
+ * Dump callbacks:
+ * @start: start callback for dumps
+ * @dumpit: callback for dumpers
+ * @done: completion callback for dumps
+ *
+ * Do callbacks can be used if %GENL_CMD_CAP_DO is set in @flags.
+ * Dump callbacks can be used if %GENL_CMD_CAP_DUMP is set in @flags.
+ * Exactly one of those flags must be set.
+ */
+struct genl_split_ops {
+	union {
+		struct {
+			int (*pre_doit)(const struct genl_split_ops *ops,
+					struct sk_buff *skb,
+					struct genl_info *info);
+			int (*doit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				    struct genl_info *info);
+			void (*post_doit)(const struct genl_split_ops *ops,
+					  struct sk_buff *skb,
+					  struct genl_info *info);
+		};
+		struct {
+			int (*start)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
+			int (*dumpit)(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				      struct netlink_callback *cb);
+			int (*done)(struct netlink_callback *cb);
+		};
+	};
+	const struct nla_policy *policy;
+	unsigned int		maxattr;
+	u8			cmd;
+	u8			internal_flags;
+	u8			flags;
+	u8			validate;
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct genl_dumpit_info - info that is available during dumpit op call
+ * @family: generic netlink family - for internal genl code usage
+ * @op: generic netlink ops - for internal genl code usage
+ * @attrs: netlink attributes
+ */
+struct genl_dumpit_info {
+	const struct genl_family *family;
+	struct genl_split_ops op;
+	struct nlattr **attrs;
+};
+
+static inline const struct genl_dumpit_info *
+genl_dumpit_info(struct netlink_callback *cb)
+{
+	return cb->data;
+}
+
+int genl_register_family(struct genl_family *family);
+int genl_unregister_family(const struct genl_family *family);
+void genl_notify(const struct genl_family *family, struct sk_buff *skb,
+		 struct genl_info *info, u32 group, gfp_t flags);
+
+void *genlmsg_put(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid, u32 seq,
+		  const struct genl_family *family, int flags, u8 cmd);
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_nlhdr - Obtain netlink header from user specified header
+ * @user_hdr: user header as returned from genlmsg_put()
+ *
+ * Returns pointer to netlink header.
+ */
+static inline struct nlmsghdr *genlmsg_nlhdr(void *user_hdr)
+{
+	return (struct nlmsghdr *)((char *)user_hdr -
+				   GENL_HDRLEN -
+				   NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_parse_deprecated - 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
+ * @extack: extended ACK report struct
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_parse_deprecated(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+					   const struct genl_family *family,
+					   struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
+					   const struct nla_policy *policy,
+					   struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
+{
+	return __nlmsg_parse(nlh, family->hdrsize + GENL_HDRLEN, tb, maxtype,
+			     policy, NL_VALIDATE_LIBERAL, extack);
+}
+
+/**
+ * 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
+ * @extack: extended ACK report struct
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_parse(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
+				const struct genl_family *family,
+				struct nlattr *tb[], int maxtype,
+				const struct nla_policy *policy,
+				struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
+{
+	return __nlmsg_parse(nlh, family->hdrsize + GENL_HDRLEN, tb, maxtype,
+			     policy, NL_VALIDATE_STRICT, extack);
+}
+
+/**
+ * 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()
+ *
+ * Cf. nl_dump_check_consistent(), this just provides a wrapper to make it
+ * simpler to use with generic netlink.
+ */
+static inline void genl_dump_check_consistent(struct netlink_callback *cb,
+					      void *user_hdr)
+{
+	nl_dump_check_consistent(cb, genlmsg_nlhdr(user_hdr));
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_put_reply - Add generic netlink header to a reply message
+ * @skb: socket buffer holding the message
+ * @info: receiver info
+ * @family: generic netlink family
+ * @flags: netlink message flags
+ * @cmd: generic netlink command
+ *
+ * Returns pointer to user specific header
+ */
+static inline void *genlmsg_put_reply(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				      struct genl_info *info,
+				      const struct genl_family *family,
+				      int flags, u8 cmd)
+{
+	return genlmsg_put(skb, info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq, family,
+			   flags, cmd);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_end - Finalize a generic netlink message
+ * @skb: socket buffer the message is stored in
+ * @hdr: user specific header
+ */
+static inline void genlmsg_end(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr)
+{
+	nlmsg_end(skb, hdr - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_cancel - Cancel construction of a generic netlink message
+ * @skb: socket buffer the message is stored in
+ * @hdr: generic netlink message header
+ */
+static inline void genlmsg_cancel(struct sk_buff *skb, void *hdr)
+{
+	if (hdr)
+		nlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_multicast_netns - multicast a netlink message to a specific netns
+ * @family: the generic netlink family
+ * @net: the net namespace
+ * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
+ * @portid: own netlink portid to avoid sending to yourself
+ * @group: offset of multicast group in groups array
+ * @flags: allocation flags
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_multicast_netns(const struct genl_family *family,
+					  struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb,
+					  u32 portid, unsigned int group, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(group >= family->n_mcgrps))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	group = family->mcgrp_offset + group;
+	return nlmsg_multicast(net->genl_sock, skb, portid, group, flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_multicast - multicast a netlink message to the default netns
+ * @family: the generic netlink family
+ * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
+ * @portid: own netlink portid to avoid sending to yourself
+ * @group: offset of multicast group in groups array
+ * @flags: allocation flags
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_multicast(const struct genl_family *family,
+				    struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid,
+				    unsigned int group, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return genlmsg_multicast_netns(family, &init_net, skb,
+				       portid, group, flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_multicast_allns - multicast a netlink message to all net namespaces
+ * @family: the generic netlink family
+ * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
+ * @portid: own netlink portid to avoid sending to yourself
+ * @group: offset of multicast group in groups array
+ * @flags: allocation flags
+ *
+ * This function must hold the RTNL or rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+int genlmsg_multicast_allns(const struct genl_family *family,
+			    struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid,
+			    unsigned int group, gfp_t flags);
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_unicast - unicast a netlink message
+ * @net: network namespace to look up @portid in
+ * @skb: netlink message as socket buffer
+ * @portid: netlink portid of the destination socket
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_unicast(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, u32 portid)
+{
+	return nlmsg_unicast(net->genl_sock, skb, portid);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_reply - reply to a request
+ * @skb: netlink message to be sent back
+ * @info: receiver information
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_reply(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
+{
+	return genlmsg_unicast(genl_info_net(info), skb, info->snd_portid);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_data - head of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink message header
+ */
+static inline void *genlmsg_data(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+	return ((unsigned char *) gnlh + GENL_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_len - length of message payload
+ * @gnlh: genetlink message header
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_len(const struct genlmsghdr *gnlh)
+{
+	struct nlmsghdr *nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *)((unsigned char *)gnlh -
+							NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+	return (nlh->nlmsg_len - GENL_HDRLEN - NLMSG_HDRLEN);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_msg_size - length of genetlink message not including padding
+ * @payload: length of message payload
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_msg_size(int payload)
+{
+	return GENL_HDRLEN + payload;
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_total_size - length of genetlink message including padding
+ * @payload: length of message payload
+ */
+static inline int genlmsg_total_size(int payload)
+{
+	return NLMSG_ALIGN(genlmsg_msg_size(payload));
+}
+
+/**
+ * genlmsg_new - Allocate a new generic netlink message
+ * @payload: size of the message payload
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+static inline struct sk_buff *genlmsg_new(size_t payload, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return nlmsg_new(genlmsg_total_size(payload), flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * genl_set_err - report error to genetlink broadcast listeners
+ * @family: the generic netlink family
+ * @net: the network namespace to report the error to
+ * @portid: the PORTID of a process that we want to skip (if any)
+ * @group: the broadcast group that will notice the error
+ * 	(this is the offset of the multicast group in the groups array)
+ * @code: error code, must be negative (as usual in kernelspace)
+ *
+ * This function returns the number of broadcast listeners that have set the
+ * NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS socket option.
+ */
+static inline int genl_set_err(const struct genl_family *family,
+			       struct net *net, u32 portid,
+			       u32 group, int code)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(group >= family->n_mcgrps))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	group = family->mcgrp_offset + group;
+	return netlink_set_err(net->genl_sock, portid, group, code);
+}
+
+static inline int genl_has_listeners(const struct genl_family *family,
+				     struct net *net, unsigned int group)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(group >= family->n_mcgrps))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	group = family->mcgrp_offset + group;
+	return netlink_has_listeners(net->genl_sock, group);
+}
+#endif	/* __NET_GENERIC_NETLINK_H */