linux/net
Andrea Mayer 964adce526 seg6: improve management of behavior attributes
Depending on the attribute (i.e.: SEG6_LOCAL_SRH, SEG6_LOCAL_TABLE, etc),
the parse() callback performs some validity checks on the provided input
and updates the tunnel state (slwt) with the result of the parsing
operation. However, an attribute may also need to reserve some additional
resources (i.e.: memory or setting up an eBPF program) in the parse()
callback to complete the parsing operation.

The parse() callbacks are invoked by the parse_nla_action() for each
attribute belonging to a specific behavior. Given a behavior with N
attributes, if the parsing of the i-th attribute fails, the
parse_nla_action() returns immediately with an error. Nonetheless, the
resources acquired during the parsing of the i-1 attributes are not freed
by the parse_nla_action().

Attributes which acquire resources must release them *in an explicit way*
in both the seg6_local_{build/destroy}_state(). However, adding a new
attribute of this type requires changes to
seg6_local_{build/destroy}_state() to release the resources correctly.

The seg6local infrastructure still lacks a simple and structured way to
release the resources acquired in the parse() operations.

We introduced a new callback in the struct seg6_action_param named
destroy(). This callback releases any resource which may have been acquired
in the parse() counterpart. Each attribute may or may not implement the
destroy() callback depending on whether it needs to free some acquired
resources.

The destroy() callback comes with several of advantages:

 1) we can have many attributes as we want for a given behavior with no
    need to explicitly free the taken resources;

 2) As in case of the seg6_local_build_state(), the
    seg6_local_destroy_state() does not need to handle the release of
    resources directly. Indeed, it calls the destroy_attrs() function which
    is in charge of calling the destroy() callback for every set attribute.
    We do not need to patch seg6_local_{build/destroy}_state() anymore as
    we add new attributes;

 3) the code is more readable and better structured. Indeed, all the
    information needed to handle a given attribute are contained in only
    one place;

 4) it facilitates the integration with new features introduced in further
    patches.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-12-04 13:30:50 -08:00
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6lowpan treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
9p net: 9p: Fix kerneldoc warnings of missing parameters etc 2020-11-02 12:25:52 -08:00
802
8021q net: vlan: Fixed signedness in vlan_group_prealloc_vid() 2020-09-28 00:51:39 -07:00
appletalk net: appletalk: fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 11:48:17 -07:00
atm atm: nicstar: Replace in_interrupt() usage 2020-11-18 16:43:55 -08:00
ax25 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-07-25 17:49:04 -07:00
batman-adv batman-adv: Don't always reallocate the fragmentation skb head 2020-11-27 08:02:55 +01:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-10-29 17:22:59 -05:00
bpf bpf: fix raw_tp test run in preempt kernel 2020-09-30 08:34:08 -07:00
bpfilter Revert "bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH" 2020-10-15 12:33:24 -07:00
bridge Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
caif caif: Remove duplicate macro SRVL_CTRL_PKT_SIZE 2020-09-05 15:57:05 -07:00
can Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-27 18:25:27 -08:00
ceph libceph: clear con->out_msg on Policy::stateful_server faults 2020-10-12 15:29:27 +02:00
core Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-12-04 07:48:12 -08:00
dcb net: dcb: Fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 11:59:54 -07:00
dccp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-27 18:25:27 -08:00
decnet treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
dns_resolver
dsa net: dsa: tag_hellcreek: Cleanup includes 2020-11-23 16:57:21 -08:00
ethernet net: datagram: fix some kernel-doc markups 2020-11-17 14:15:03 -08:00
ethtool Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-12 16:54:48 -08:00
hsr genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
ieee802154 treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
ife
ipv4 Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-12-04 07:48:12 -08:00
ipv6 seg6: improve management of behavior attributes 2020-12-04 13:30:50 -08:00
iucv net/af_iucv: set correct sk_protocol for child sockets 2020-11-21 14:43:45 -08:00
kcm net: pass a sockptr_t into ->setsockopt 2020-07-24 15:41:54 -07:00
key Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-08-02 01:02:12 -07:00
l2tp genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
l3mdev net: l3mdev: Fix kerneldoc warning 2020-10-30 11:43:42 -07:00
lapb net/lapb: fix t1 timer handling for LAPB_STATE_0 2020-11-27 17:22:51 -08:00
llc net: llc: Fix kerneldoc warnings 2020-10-30 11:34:09 -07:00
mac80211 Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-19 19:08:46 -08:00
mac802154 net: mac802154: convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup() API 2020-11-07 10:40:56 -08:00
mpls mpls: drop skb's dst in mpls_forward() 2020-11-03 12:55:53 -08:00
mptcp mptcp: emit tcp reset when a join request fails 2020-12-03 12:56:03 -08:00
ncsi net/ncsi: Fix netlink registration 2020-11-12 17:00:13 -08:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
netlabel Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-19 19:08:46 -08:00
netlink netlink: export policy in extended ACK 2020-10-09 20:22:32 -07:00
netrom treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
nfc treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy. 2020-11-16 08:08:54 -08:00
nsh treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
openvswitch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
packet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-27 18:25:27 -08:00
phonet treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
psample genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible 2020-10-02 19:11:11 -07:00
qrtr wireless-drivers-next patches for v5.11 2020-12-04 10:56:37 -08:00
rds RDMA: Add rdma_connect_locked() 2020-10-28 09:14:49 -03:00
rfkill rfkill: Fix use-after-free in rfkill_resume() 2020-11-12 09:18:06 +01:00
rose rose: Fix Null pointer dereference in rose_send_frame() 2020-11-20 10:04:58 -08:00
rxrpc rxrpc: Ask the security class how much space to allow in a packet 2020-11-23 19:53:11 +00:00
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
sctp sctp: Fix some typo 2020-11-23 17:44:11 -08:00
smc net/smc: Add support for obtaining SMCR device list 2020-12-01 17:56:13 -08:00
strparser
sunrpc net: datagram: fix some kernel-doc markups 2020-11-17 14:15:03 -08:00
switchdev net: switchdev: Fixed kerneldoc warning 2020-09-23 17:46:31 -07:00
tipc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
tls net/tls: make sure tls offload sets salt_size 2020-12-01 17:51:30 -08:00
unix networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
vmw_vsock Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-27 18:25:27 -08:00
wireless Some updates: 2020-11-13 12:03:22 -08:00
x25 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-03 15:44:09 -08:00
xdp Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-12-04 07:48:12 -08:00
xfrm net: xfrm: use core API for updating/providing stats 2020-11-14 17:01:08 -08:00
Kconfig wimax: move out to staging 2020-10-29 19:27:45 +01:00
Makefile wimax: move out to staging 2020-10-29 19:27:45 +01:00
compat.c iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec 2020-10-03 00:02:13 -04:00
devres.c net: devres: rename the release callback of devm_register_netdev() 2020-06-30 15:57:34 -07:00
socket.c net: don't include ethtool.h from netdevice.h 2020-11-23 17:27:04 -08:00
sysctl_net.c