__nlmsg_parse(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 __nlmsg_parse — Kernel API Manual 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the __nlmsg_parse(9) page ✨ this is the Kernel API Manual, and it's a short one — like, suspiciously short — but we're gonna give it the full main-character treatment anyway. Let's go 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

__nlmsg_parse — parse attributes of a netlink message 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int __nlmsg_parse (const struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int hdrlen, struct nlattr *tb[],
                   int maxtype, const struct nla_policy *policy,
                   unsigned int validate, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);

like… it returns an int, it takes seven things, and it's giving "I have a very specific job" energy 😌

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • nlh — the netlink message header. the whole message's crown 👑
  • hdrlen — length of the family specific header. yes, family-specific, she's custom 🌈
  • tb — destination array with maxtype+1 elements. destination array!! count your elements, bestie, maxtype+1 of them, no more no less 🙈
  • maxtype — maximum attribute type to be expected. the ceiling, the limit, the "we don't go past this" 💅
  • policy — validation policy. rules are rules 🎀
  • validate — validation strictness. how hard are we gonna check? that's the vibe check 🔥
  • extack — extended ACK report struct. the receipts struct 📋

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the entire description is, and I cannot stress this enough, literally:

See nla_parse

that's it. that's the description 💀 she said "my story is told elsewhere, go ask my sibling." iconic, honestly. so like, nla_parse is where the actual tea is at 🍓

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the friend group is huge, buckle up:

like I said. huge friend group. go say hi to all of them 🧚💜

and that's the whole page, bestie, short and sweet 🍓 this one came from the source at ./include/net, dated October 2026, and it lives in the Kernel API Manual — mwah, go parse some attributes, ily, bye 💖✨🎀

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