ieee802154: allow legacy LLSEC ADD/DEL ops to pass strict validation

The LLSEC ADD/DEL doit handlers under the legacy IEEE802154_NL family
consume IEEE802154_ATTR_LLSEC_KEY_BYTES and
IEEE802154_ATTR_LLSEC_KEY_USAGE_COMMANDS, both declared in
net/ieee802154/nl_policy.c as bare length entries with no .type
(defaulting to NLA_UNSPEC). Generic netlink strict validation rejects
all NLA_UNSPEC attributes via validate_nla(), so every LLSEC_ADD_KEY,
LLSEC_DEL_KEY, LLSEC_ADD_DEV, LLSEC_DEL_DEV, LLSEC_ADD_DEVKEY,
LLSEC_DEL_DEVKEY, LLSEC_ADD_SECLEVEL, and LLSEC_DEL_SECLEVEL request
fails at the dispatcher with "Unsupported attribute" before reaching
the handler.

The doit path has been silently dead since strict validation became
the default for genl families that do not opt out. The dump path is
unaffected because dump requests carry no LLSEC attributes to
validate, which is why the LLSEC_LIST_KEY read remained reachable
(patch 1/2). Introduce IEEE802154_OP_RELAXED() mirroring
IEEE802154_OP() but with .validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT, and
use it for the eight legacy LLSEC mutate ops so admin-driven LLSEC
configuration via the legacy interface works again.

Fixes: 3e9c156e2c21 ("ieee802154: add netlink interfaces for llsec")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260520141640.1149513-3-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>

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