netlink: Add compare function for netlink_table

As we know, netlink sockets are private resource of
net namespace, they can communicate with each other
only when they in the same net namespace. this works
well until we try to add namespace support for other
subsystems which use netlink.

Don't like ipv4 and route table.., it is not suited to
make these subsytems belong to net namespace, Such as
audit and crypto subsystems,they are more suitable to
user namespace.

So we must have the ability to make the netlink sockets
in same user namespace can communicate with each other.

This patch adds a new function pointer "compare" for
netlink_table, we can decide if the netlink sockets can
communicate with each other through this netlink_table
self-defined compare function.

The behavior isn't changed if we don't provide the compare
function for netlink_table.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 6358da5eeee8..f78b430f4af5 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct netlink_kernel_cfg {
 	void		(*input)(struct sk_buff *skb);
 	struct mutex	*cb_mutex;
 	void		(*bind)(int group);
+	bool		(*compare)(struct net *net, struct sock *sk);
 };
 
 extern struct sock *__netlink_kernel_create(struct net *net, int unit,