git: c9d98c013486 - main - netlink: add const variants of NLA iteration macros
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Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:39:42 UTC
The branch main has been updated by kp:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=c9d98c0134864d8bc69006b92d34a3b22c940870
commit c9d98c0134864d8bc69006b92d34a3b22c940870
Author: Ishan Agrawal <iagrawal9990@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: 2026-06-28 04:14:28 +0000
Commit: Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-07-03 08:20:12 +0000
netlink: add const variants of NLA iteration macros
Add const-qualified versions of the NLA iteration helpers to allow
walking immutable netlink attribute buffers without discarding const
qualifiers.
This introduces NLA_NEXT_CONST(), _NLA_END_CONST(), and
NLA_FOREACH_CONST() in netlink_snl.h.
Signed-off-by: Ishan Agrawal <iagrawal9990@gmail.com>
Sponsored-by : Google LLC (GSoC 2026)
---
sys/netlink/netlink_snl.h | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sys/netlink/netlink_snl.h b/sys/netlink/netlink_snl.h
index 52b35e502c98..34a0f3791af2 100644
--- a/sys/netlink/netlink_snl.h
+++ b/sys/netlink/netlink_snl.h
@@ -69,6 +69,18 @@
((char *)NLA_NEXT(_attr) <= _NLA_END(_start, _len)); \
_attr = NLA_NEXT(_attr))
+#define NLA_NEXT_CONST(_attr) (const struct nlattr *)(const void *) \
+ ((const char *)_attr + NLA_ALIGN(_attr->nla_len))
+
+#define _NLA_END_CONST(_start, _len) \
+ ((const char *)(_start) + (_len))
+#define NLA_FOREACH_CONST(_attr, _start, _len) \
+ for (_attr = (const struct nlattr *)(_start); \
+ ((const char *)_attr < _NLA_END_CONST(_start, _len)) && \
+ ((const char *)NLA_NEXT_CONST(_attr) <= \
+ _NLA_END_CONST(_start, _len)); \
+ _attr = NLA_NEXT_CONST(_attr))
+
struct linear_buffer {
char *base; /* Base allocated memory pointer */
uint32_t offset; /* Currently used offset */