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Eric Dumazet c1fd3b9455 net: af_netlink should update its inuse counter
In order to have relevant information for NETLINK protocol, in
/proc/net/protocols, we should use sock_prot_inuse_add() to
update a (percpu and pernamespace) counter of inuse sockets.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23 15:48:22 -08:00
Patrick McHardy b057efd4d2 netlink: constify struct nlattr * arg to parsing functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 11:59:11 -07:00
Johannes Berg 95a5afca4a net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)
Some code here depends on CONFIG_KMOD to not try to load
protocol modules or similar, replace by CONFIG_MODULES
where more than just request_module depends on CONFIG_KMOD
and and also use try_then_request_module in ebtables.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
Alan Cox 113aa838ec net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts
Clean up the various different email addresses of mine listed in the code
to a single current and valid address. As Dave says his network merges
for 2.6.28 are now done this seems a good point to send them in where
they won't risk disrupting real changes.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 547b792cac net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
Removes legacy reinvent-the-wheel type thing. The generic
machinery integrates much better to automated debugging aids
such as kerneloops.org (and others), and is unambiguous due to
better naming. Non-intuively BUG_TRAP() is actually equal to
WARN_ON() rather than BUG_ON() though some might actually be
promoted to BUG_ON() but I left that to future.

I could make at least one BUILD_BUG_ON conversion.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
David S. Miller ea2aca084b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2008-07-05 23:08:07 -07:00
Wang Chen 8487460720 netlink: Unneeded local variable
We already have a variable, which has the same capability.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-01 19:55:09 -07:00
David S. Miller 1b63ba8a86 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
2008-06-28 01:19:40 -07:00
Julius Volz 10b595aff1 netlink: Fix some doc comments in net/netlink/attr.c
Fix some doc comments to match function and attribute names in
net/netlink/attr.c.

Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-27 20:02:14 -07:00
David S. Miller 0344f1c66b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/tx.c
2008-06-19 16:00:04 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 6d1a3fb567 netlink: genl: fix circular locking
genetlink has a circular locking dependency when dumping the registered
families:

- dump start:
genl_rcv()            : take genl_mutex
genl_rcv_msg()        : call netlink_dump_start() while holding genl_mutex
netlink_dump_start(),
netlink_dump()        : take nlk->cb_mutex
ctrl_dumpfamily()     : try to detect this case and not take genl_mutex a
                        second time

- dump continuance:
netlink_rcv()         : call netlink_dump
netlink_dump          : take nlk->cb_mutex
ctrl_dumpfamily()     : take genl_mutex

Register genl_lock as callback mutex with netlink to fix this. This slightly
widens an already existing module unload race, the genl ops used during the
dump might go away when the module is unloaded. Thomas Graf is working on a
seperate fix for this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-18 02:07:07 -07:00
David S. Miller 65b53e4cc9 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/tg3.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c
	net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
2008-06-10 02:22:26 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 9457afee85 netlink: Remove nonblock parameter from netlink_attachskb
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-05 11:23:39 -07:00
Thomas Graf bc3ed28caa netlink: Improve returned error codes
Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and
nla_nest_cancel() void functions.

Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not
big enough.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03 16:36:54 -07:00
Eric Paris 2532386f48 Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messages
Previously I added sessionid output to all audit messages where it was
available but we still didn't know the sessionid of the sender of
netlink messages.  This patch adds that information to netlink messages
so we can audit who sent netlink messages.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-28 06:18:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 3925e6fc1f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  security: fix up documentation for security_module_enable
  Security: Introduce security= boot parameter
  Audit: Final renamings and cleanup
  SELinux: use new audit hooks, remove redundant exports
  Audit: internally use the new LSM audit hooks
  LSM/Audit: Introduce generic Audit LSM hooks
  SELinux: remove redundant exports
  Netlink: Use generic LSM hook
  Audit: use new LSM hooks instead of SELinux exports
  SELinux: setup new inode/ipc getsecid hooks
  LSM: Introduce inode_getsecid and ipc_getsecid hooks
2008-04-18 18:18:30 -07:00
Ahmed S. Darwish 0ce784ca72 Netlink: Use generic LSM hook
Don't use SELinux exported selinux_get_task_sid symbol.
Use the generic LSM equivalent instead.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
2008-04-19 09:52:35 +10:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 878628fbf2 [NET] NETNS: Omit namespace comparision without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce an inline net_eq() to compare two namespaces.
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, since no namespace other than &init_net
exists, it is always 1.

We do not need to convert 1) inline vs inline and
2) inline vs &init_net comparisons.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:40:00 +09:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 1218854afa [NET] NETNS: Omit seq_net_private->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists,
no need to store net in seq_net_private.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:56 +09:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 3b1e0a655f [NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set()
and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:55 +09:00
Stephen Hemminger b1153f29ee netlink: make socket filters work on netlink
Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications.
This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with
messages that are then ignored.

Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter
state machine operations are done as network byte order.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-21 15:46:12 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev edf0208702 [NET]: Make netlink_kernel_release publically available as sk_release_kernel.
This staff will be needed for non-netlink kernel sockets, which should
also not pin a namespace like tcp_socket and icmp_socket.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-29 11:18:32 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 9dfbec1fb2 [NETLINK]: No need for a separate __netlink_release call.
Merge it to netlink_kernel_release.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-29 11:17:56 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 910d6c320c [GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.
The genl_unregister_family() calls the genl_unregister_mc_groups(), 
which takes and releases the genl_lock and then locks and releases
this lock itself.

Relax this behavior, all the more so the genl_unregister_mc_groups() 
is called from genl_unregister_family() only.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-12 22:16:33 -08:00
Al Viro 0c11b9428f [PATCH] switch audit_get_loginuid() to task_struct *
all callers pass something->audit_context

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-02-01 14:04:59 -05:00
Pavel Emelyanov 23fe18669e [NETNS]: Fix race between put_net() and netlink_kernel_create().
The comment about "race free view of the set of network
namespaces" was a bit hasty. Look (there even can be only
one CPU, as discovered by Alexey Dobriyan and Denis Lunev):

put_net()
  if (atomic_dec_and_test(&net->refcnt))
    /* true */
      __put_net(net);
        queue_work(...);

/*
 * note: the net now has refcnt 0, but still in
 * the global list of net namespaces
 */

== re-schedule ==

register_pernet_subsys(&some_ops);
  register_pernet_operations(&some_ops);
    (*some_ops)->init(net);
      /*
       * we call netlink_kernel_create() here
       * in some places
       */
      netlink_kernel_create();
         sk_alloc();
            get_net(net); /* refcnt = 1 */
         /*
          * now we drop the net refcount not to
          * block the net namespace exit in the
          * future (or this can be done on the
          * error path)
          */
         put_net(sk->sk_net);
             if (atomic_dec_and_test(&...))
                   /*
                    * true. BOOOM! The net is
                    * scheduled for release twice
                    */

When thinking on this problem, I decided, that getting and
putting the net in init callback is wrong. If some init
callback needs to have a refcount-less reference on the struct
net, _it_ has to be careful himself, rather than relying on
the infrastructure to handle this correctly.

In case of netlink_kernel_create(), the problem is that the
sk_alloc() gets the given namespace, but passing the info
that we don't want to get it inside this call is too heavy.

Instead, I propose to crate the socket inside an init_net
namespace and then re-attach it to the desired one right
after the socket is created.

After doing this, we also have to be careful on error paths
not to drop the reference on the namespace, we didn't get
the one on.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:22 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 01480e1cf5 [NETLINK]: Add nla_append()
Used to append data to a message without a header or padding.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:09 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 775516bfa2 [NETNS]: Namespace stop vs 'ip r l' race.
During network namespace stop process kernel side netlink sockets
belonging to a namespace should be closed. They should not prevent
namespace to stop, so they do not increment namespace usage
counter. Though this counter will be put during last sock_put.

The raplacement of the correct netns for init_ns solves the problem
only partial as socket to be stoped until proper stop is a valid
netlink kernel socket and can be looked up by the user processes. This
is not a problem until it resides in initial namespace (no processes
inside this net), but this is not true for init_net.

So, hold the referrence for a socket, remove it from lookup tables and
only after that change namespace and perform a last put.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:08 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev b7c6ba6eb1 [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.
Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just
let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal
inside a namespace.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:07 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 869e58f870 [NETNS]: Double free in netlink_release.
Netlink protocol table is global for all namespaces. Some netlink
protocols have been virtualized, i.e. they have per/namespace netlink
socket. This difference can easily lead to double free if more than 1
namespace is started. Count the number of kernel netlink sockets to
track that this table is not used any more.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:05 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 3f25252675 [NETLINK] af_netlink: kill some bloat
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:
  netlink_realloc_groups        |  -46
  netlink_insert                |  -49
  netlink_autobind              |  -94
  netlink_clear_multicast_users |  -48
  netlink_bind                  |  -55
  netlink_setsockopt            |  -54
  netlink_release               |  -86
  netlink_kernel_create         |  -47
  netlink_change_ngroups        |  -56
 9 functions changed, 535 bytes removed, diff: -535

net/netlink/af_netlink.c:
  netlink_table_ungrab |  +53
 1 function changed, 53 bytes added, diff: +53

net/netlink/af_netlink.o:
 10 functions changed, 53 bytes added, 535 bytes removed, diff: -482

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:50 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 9a429c4983 [NET]: Add some acquires/releases sparse annotations.
Add __acquires() and __releases() annotations to suppress some sparse
warnings.

example of warnings :

net/ipv4/udp.c:1555:14: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_start' - wrong
count at exit
net/ipv4/udp.c:1571:13: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_stop' -
unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:31 -08:00
Eric Dumazet ea72912c88 [NETLINK]: kzalloc() conversion
nl_pid_hash_alloc() is renamed to nl_pid_hash_zalloc().
It is now returning zeroed memory to its callers.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:57:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 6ac552fdc6 [NETLINK]: af_netlink.c checkpatch cleanups
Fix large number of checkpatch errors.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:50 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev e372c41401 [NET]: Consolidate net namespace related proc files creation.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:28 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 022cbae611 [NET]: Move unneeded data to initdata section.
This patch reverts Eric's commit 2b008b0a8e

It diets .text & .data section of the kernel if CONFIG_NET_NS is not set.
This is safe after list operations cleanup.

Signed-of-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13 03:23:50 -08:00
Patrick McHardy c3d8d1e30c [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts
Commit ed6dcf4a in the history.git tree broke netlink_unicast timeouts
by moving the schedule_timeout() call to a new function that doesn't
propagate the remaining timeout back to the caller. This means on each
retry we start with the full timeout again.

ipc/mqueue.c seems to actually want to wait indefinitely so this
behaviour is retained.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:15:12 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 6257ff2177 [NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()
Finally, the zero_it argument can be completely removed from
the callers and from the function prototype.

Besides, fix the checkpatch.pl warnings about using the
assignments inside if-s.

This patch is rather big, and it is a part of the previous one.
I splitted it wishing to make the patches more readable. Hope 
this particular split helped.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01 00:39:31 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 2b008b0a8e [NET]: Marking struct pernet_operations __net_initdata was inappropriate
It is not safe to to place struct pernet_operations in a special section.
We need struct pernet_operations to last until we call unregister_pernet_subsys.
Which doesn't happen until module unload.

So marking struct pernet_operations is a disaster for modules in two ways.
- We discard it before we call the exit method it points to.
- Because I keep struct pernet_operations on a linked list discarding
  it for compiled in code removes elements in the middle of a linked
  list and does horrible things for linked insert.

So this looks safe assuming __exit_refok is not discarded
for modules.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-26 22:54:53 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 5c58298c25 [NETLINK]: Fix ACK processing after netlink_dump_start
Revert to original netlink behavior. Do not reply with ACK if the
netlink dump has bees successfully started.

libnl has been broken by the cd40b7d398
The following command reproduce the problem:
   /nl-route-get 192.168.1.1

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23 21:27:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl f937f1f46b [NETLINK]: Don't leak 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create()
The Coverity checker spotted that we'll leak the storage allocated
to 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create() when the
  if (!nl_table[unit].registered)
check is false.

This patch avoids the leak.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:32 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious.
This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current
netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced 
asynchronious user -> kernel communication.

The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel
netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the
user.

Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue
and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all
pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing
may occur in the arbitrary process context.

This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet
processing right in the netlink_unicast.

Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched.

EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock
drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully
processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev aed815601f [NET]: unify netlink kernel socket recognition
There are currently two ways to determine whether the netlink socket is a
kernel one or a user one. This patch creates a single inline call for
this purpose and unifies all the calls in the af_netlink.c

No similar calls are found outside af_netlink.c.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:14:32 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 7ee015e0fa [NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskb
netlink_sendskb does not use third argument. Clean it and save a couple of
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:14:03 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 3b71535f35 [NET]: Make netlink processing routines semi-synchronious (inspired by rtnl) v2
The code in netfilter/nfnetlink.c and in ./net/netlink/genetlink.c looks
like outdated copy/paste from rtnetlink.c. Push them into sync with the
original.

Changes from v1:
- deleted comment in nfnetlink_rcv_msg by request of Patrick McHardy

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:13:32 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov cf7732e4cc [NET]: Make core networking code use seq_open_private
This concerns the ipv4 and ipv6 code mostly, but also the netlink
and unix sockets.

The netlink code is an example of how to use the __seq_open_private()
call - it saves the net namespace on this private.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:33 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 4665079cbb [NETNS]: Move some code into __init section when CONFIG_NET_NS=n
With the net namespaces many code leaved the __init section,
thus making the kernel occupy more memory than it did before.
Since we have a config option that prohibits the namespace
creation, the functions that initialize/finalize some netns
stuff are simply not needed and can be freed after the boot.

Currently, this is almost not noticeable, since few calls
are no longer in __init, but when the namespaces will be
merged it will be possible to free more code. I propose to
use the __net_init, __net_exit and __net_initdata "attributes"
for functions/variables that are not used if the CONFIG_NET_NS
is not set to save more space in memory.

The exiting functions cannot just reside in the __exit section,
as noticed by David, since the init section will have
references on it and the compilation will fail due to modpost
checks. These references can exist, since the init namespace
never dies and the exit callbacks are never called. So I
introduce the __exit_refok attribute just like it is already
done with the __init_refok.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:58 -07:00
Denis Cheng 26ff5ddc5a [NETLINK]: the temp variable name max is ambiguous
with the macro max provided by <linux/kernel.h>, so changed its name
to a more proper one: limit

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:25 -07:00
Denis Cheng 99406c885a [NETLINK]: use the macro min(x,y) provided by <linux/kernel.h> instead
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:25 -07:00
Herbert Xu 0cfad07555 [NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue
I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured
to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values
unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue.  Changing it to return
the value will allow the compiler to generate better code
since the value won't have to be memory-backed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 077130c0cf [NET]: Fix race when opening a proc file while a network namespace is exiting.
The problem:  proc_net files remember which network namespace the are
against but do not remember hold a reference count (as that would pin
the network namespace).   So we currently have a small window where
the reference count on a network namespace may be incremented when opening
a /proc file when it has already gone to zero.

To fix this introduce maybe_get_net and get_proc_net.

maybe_get_net increments the network namespace reference count only if it is
greater then zero, ensuring we don't increment a reference count after it
has gone to zero.

get_proc_net handles all of the magic to go from a proc inode to the network
namespace instance and call maybe_get_net on it.

PROC_NET the old accessor is removed so that we don't get confused and use
the wrong helper function.

Then I fix up the callers to use get_proc_net and handle the case case
where get_proc_net returns NULL.  In that case I return -ENXIO because
effectively the network namespace has already gone away so the files
we are trying to access don't exist anymore.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:22 -07:00
Thomas Graf 8f4c1f9b04 [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute
This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within
the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced.

The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to
allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:16 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman b4b510290b [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
this includes the controlling kernel sockets.

This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
to only support the initial network namespace.  Request
by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
that netlink protocol compiled in.

As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.

The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 1b8d7ae42d [NET]: Make socket creation namespace safe.
This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in
and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting.  By
virtue of this all socket create methods are touched.  In addition
the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if
you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace.

Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default
network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack
network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone
has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe.
Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the
exotic protocols are supported.

Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now
pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code.

[ Integrated AF_IUCV build fixes from Andrew Morton... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:07 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
Denis Cheng 32b21e034b [NETLINK]: use container_of instead
This could make future redesign of struct netlink_sock easier.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:35 -07:00
Thomas Graf 79d310d01e [GENETLINK]: Correctly report errors while registering a multicast group
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:34:53 -07:00
Thomas Graf 2c04ddb707 [GENETLINK]: Fix adjustment of number of multicast groups
The current calculation of the maximum number of genetlink
multicast groups seems odd, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:33:51 -07:00
Thomas Graf 79dc4386ae [GENETLINK]: Fix race in genl_unregister_mc_groups()
family->mcast_groups is protected by genl_lock so it must
be held while accessing the list in genl_unregister_mc_groups().
Requires adding a non-locking variant of genl_unregister_mc_group().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:32:46 -07:00
Johannes Berg 2dbba6f773 [GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups.
Introduce API to dynamically register and unregister multicast groups.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 15:47:52 -07:00
Johannes Berg 84659eb529 [NETLIKN]: Allow removing multicast groups.
Allow kicking listeners out of a multicast group when necessary
(for example if that group is going to be removed.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 15:47:05 -07:00
Johannes Berg b4ff4f0419 [NETLINK]: allocate group bitmaps dynamically
Allow changing the number of groups for a netlink family
after it has been created, use RCU to protect the listeners
bitmap keeping netlink_has_listeners() lock-free.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 15:46:06 -07:00
Johannes Berg eb49653449 [NETLINK]: negative groups in netlink_setsockopt
Reading netlink_setsockopt it's not immediately clear why there isn't a
bug when you pass in negative numbers, the reason being that the >=
comparison is really unsigned although 'val' is signed because
nlk->ngroups is unsigned. Make 'val' unsigned too.

[ Update the get_user() cast to match.  --DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 02:07:51 -07:00
Philippe De Muyter 56b3d975bb [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const.
Make all initialized struct seq_operations in net/ const

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 23:07:31 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 1092cb2197 [NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute type
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert
attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a
backwards compatible way.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:15:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ef7c79ed64 [NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07 13:40:10 -07:00
Randy Dunlap e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 9e71efcd6d [NETLINK]: Remove bogus BUG_ON
Remove bogus BUG_ON(mutex_is_locked(nlk_sk(sk)->cb_mutex)), when the
netlink_kernel_create caller specifies an external mutex it might
validly be locked.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-04 12:15:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 188ccb5583 [NETLINK]: Fix use after free in netlink_recvmsg
When the user passes in MSG_TRUNC the skb is used after getting freed.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 03:27:01 -07:00
Herbert Xu 3f660d66df [NETLINK]: Kill CB only when socket is unused
Since we can still receive packets until all references to the
socket are gone, we don't need to kill the CB until that happens.
This also aligns ourselves with the receive queue purging which
happens at that point.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 03:17:14 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 42bad1da50 [NETLINK]: Possible cleanups.
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
  - core/rtnetlink.c: struct rtnl_msg_handlers[]
  - netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c: struct nf_ct_protos[]
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
  - core/rtnetlink.c: rtnl_dump_all()
  - netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_queue_skip()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 00:57:41 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ffa4d7216e [NETLINK]: don't reinitialize callback mutex
Don't reinitialize the callback mutex the netlink_kernel_create caller
handed in, it is supposed to already be initialized and could already
be held by someone.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:06 -07:00
Patrick McHardy af65bdfce9 [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:03 -07:00
Johannes Berg d30045a0bc [NETLINK]: introduce NLA_BINARY type
This patch introduces a new NLA_BINARY attribute policy type with the
verification of simply checking the maximum length of the payload.

It also fixes a small typo in the example.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:05 -07:00
Thomas Graf c702e8047f [NETLINK]: Directly return -EINTR from netlink_dump_start()
Now that all users of netlink_dump_start() use netlink_run_queue()
to process the receive queue, it is possible to return -EINTR from
netlink_dump_start() directly, therefore simplying the callers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:33 -07:00
Thomas Graf 1d00a4eb42 [NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handler
The error pointer argument in netlink message handlers is used
to signal the special case where processing has to be interrupted
because a dump was started but no error happened. Instead it is
simpler and more clear to return -EINTR and have netlink_run_queue()
deal with getting the queue right.

nfnetlink passed on this error pointer to its subsystem handlers
but only uses it to signal the start of a netlink dump. Therefore
it can be removed there as well.

This patch also cleans up the error handling in the affected
message handlers to be consistent since it had to be touched anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:30 -07:00
Thomas Graf 45e7ae7f71 [NETLINK]: Ignore control messages directly in netlink_run_queue()
Changes netlink_rcv_skb() to skip netlink controll messages and don't
pass them on to the message handler.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:29 -07:00
Thomas Graf d35b685640 [NETLINK]: Ignore !NLM_F_REQUEST messages directly in netlink_run_queue()
netlink_rcv_skb() is changed to skip messages which don't have the
NLM_F_REQUEST bit to avoid every netlink family having to perform this
check on their own.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:29 -07:00
Thomas Graf 33a0543cd9 [NETLINK]: Remove unused groups variable
Leftover from dynamic multicast groups allocation work.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:27 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo b529ccf279 [NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helper
For the common "(struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data" sequence, so that we reduce the
number of direct accesses to skb->data and for consistency with all the other
cast skb member helpers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:34 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 4305b54135 [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->end to sk_buff_data_t
Now to convert the last one, skb->data, that will allow many simplifications
and removal of some of the offset helpers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:29 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 27a884dc3c [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t
So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes
on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the
layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4
64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN...
:-)

Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network,
mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being
meaningful as offsets or pointers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:28 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo badff6d01a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_transport_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->h.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->h.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple cases:

skb->h.raw = skb->data;
skb->h.raw = {skb_push|[__]skb_pull}()

The next ones will handle the slightly more "complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:15 -07:00
Adrian Bunk cb69cc5236 [TCP/DCCP/RANDOM]: Remove unused exports.
This patch removes the following not or no longer used exports:
- drivers/char/random.c: secure_tcp_sequence_number
- net/dccp/options.c: sysctl_dccp_feat_sequence_window
- net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_set_err

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:03 -07:00
David S. Miller b558ff7999 [NETLINK]: Mirror UDP MSG_TRUNC semantics.
If the user passes MSG_TRUNC in via msg_flags, return
the full packet size not the truncated size.

Idea from Herbert Xu and Thomas Graf.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:35 -07:00
Denis Lunev ac57b3a9ce [NETLINK]: Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socket
There is a race between netlink_dump_start() and netlink_release()
that can lead to the situation when a netlink socket with non-zero
callback is freed.

Here it is:

CPU1:                           CPU2
netlink_release():              netlink_dump_start():

                                sk = netlink_lookup(); /* OK */

netlink_remove();

spin_lock(&nlk->cb_lock);
if (nlk->cb) { /* false */
  ...
}
spin_unlock(&nlk->cb_lock);

                                spin_lock(&nlk->cb_lock);
                                if (nlk->cb) { /* false */
                                         ...
                                }
                                nlk->cb = cb;
                                spin_unlock(&nlk->cb_lock);
                                ...
sock_orphan(sk);
/*
 * proceed with releasing
 * the socket
 */

The proposal it to make sock_orphan before detaching the callback
in netlink_release() and to check for the sock to be SOCK_DEAD in
netlink_dump_start() before setting a new callback.

Signed-off-by: Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-18 17:05:58 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven da7071d7e3 [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 8
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 746fac4dcd [NET] NETLINK: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:58 -08:00
Mariusz Kozlowski 5e7c001c62 [AF_NETLINK]: module_put cleanup
This patch removes redundant argument check for module_put().

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-03 18:38:15 -08:00
Josef Sipek 6db5fc5d53 [PATCH] struct path: convert netlink
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:48 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 48d4ed7a86 [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.
The command flags for dump and do were swapped..

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:06:25 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim 334c29a645 [GENETLINK]: Move command capabilities to flags.
This patch moves command capabilities to command flags. Other than
being cleaner, saves several bytes.
We increment the nlctrl version so as to signal to user space that
to not expect the attributes. We will try to be careful
not to do this too often ;->

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:38:41 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim a4d1366d50 [GENETLINK]: Add cmd dump completion.
Remove assumption that generic netlink commands cannot have dump
completion callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:32:09 -08:00
Thomas Graf 4e9b826935 [NETLINK]: Remove unused dst_pid field in netlink_skb_parms
The destination PID is passed directly to netlink_unicast()
respectively netlink_multicast().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:30:43 -08:00
Thomas Graf e94ef68205 [GENETLINK] ctrl: Avoid empty CTRL_ATTR_OPS attribute when dumping
Based on Jamal's patch but compiled and even tested. :-)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:30:23 -08:00
Thomas Graf 17c157c889 [GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headers
By modyfing genlmsg_put() to take a genl_family and by adding
genlmsg_put_reply() the process of constructing the netlink
and generic netlink headers is simplified.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:42 -08:00
Thomas Graf 81878d27fd [GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requests
A generic netlink user has no interest in knowing how to
address the source of the original request.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:41 -08:00
Thomas Graf 339bf98ffc [NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible
Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new()
instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly.

Replaces error handling of message construction functions when
constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies
a bug in calculating the size of the skb.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:22:11 -08:00
Heiko Carstens a27b58fed9 [NET]: fix uaccess handling
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-30 15:24:41 -08:00
Thomas Graf eb328111ef [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families
Additionaly exports the following information when providing
the list of registered generic netlink families:
  - protocol version
  - header size
  - maximum number of attributes
  - list of available operations including
      - id
      - flags
      - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function

libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information:

	0x0010 nlctrl version 1
	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 6
	      op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT]
	0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1
	    hdrsize 0 maxattr 0
	      op unknown (0x02) [DOIT]
	      op unknown (0x03) [DOIT]
	      ....

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:18:51 -07:00