Currently the nat extension is always attached as soon as nat module is
loaded. However, most NAT uses do not need the nat extension anymore.
Prepare to remove the add-nat-by-default by making those places that need
it attach it if its not present yet.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
krealloc(NULL, ..) is same as kmalloc(), so we can avoid special-casing
the initial allocation after the prealloc removal (we had to use
->alloc_len as the initial allocation size).
This also means we do not zero the preallocated memory anymore; only
offsets[]. Existing code makes sure the new (used) extension space gets
zeroed out.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
It was used by the nat extension, but since commit
7c96643519 ("netfilter: move nat hlist_head to nf_conn") its only needed
for connections that use MASQUERADE target or a nat helper.
Also it seems a lot easier to preallocate a fixed size instead.
With default settings, conntrack first adds ecache extension (sysctl
defaults to 1), so we get 40(ct extension header) + 24 (ecache) == 64 byte
on x86_64 for initial allocation.
Followup patches can constify the extension structs and avoid
the initial zeroing of the entire extension area.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Current SYNPROXY codes return NF_DROP during normal TCP handshaking,
it is not friendly to caller. Because the nf_hook_slow would treat
the NF_DROP as an error, and return -EPERM.
As a result, it may cause the top caller think it meets one error.
For example, the following codes are from cfv_rx_poll()
err = netif_receive_skb(skb);
if (unlikely(err)) {
++cfv->ndev->stats.rx_dropped;
} else {
++cfv->ndev->stats.rx_packets;
cfv->ndev->stats.rx_bytes += skb_len;
}
When SYNPROXY returns NF_DROP, then netif_receive_skb returns -EPERM.
As a result, the cfv driver would treat it as an error, and increase
the rx_dropped counter.
So use NF_STOLEN instead of NF_DROP now because there is no error
happened indeed, and free the skb directly.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Similar to ip_register_table, pass nf_hook_ops to ebt_register_table().
This allows to handle hook registration also via pernet_ops and allows
us to avoid use of legacy register_hook api.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
looks like decnet isn't namespacified in first place, so restrict hook
registration to the initial namespace.
Prepares for eventual removal of legacy nf_register_hook() api.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
nf_(un)register_hooks has to maintain an internal hook list to add/remove
those hooks from net namespaces as they are added/deleted.
ipvs already uses pernet_ops, so we can switch to the (more recent)
pernet hook api instead.
Compile tested only.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Defer registration of the synproxy hooks until the first SYNPROXY rule is
added. Also means we only register hooks in namespaces that need it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The window scale may be enlarged from 14 to 15 according to the itef
draft https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nishida-tcpm-maxwin-03.
Use the macro TCP_MAX_WSCALE to support it easily with TCP stack in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The commit ab8bc7ed86
("netfilter: remove nf_ct_is_untracked")
changed the line
if (ct && !nf_ct_is_untracked(ct) && nfct_nat(ct)) {
to
if (ct && nfct_nat(ct)) {
meanwhile, the commit 41390895e5
("netfilter: ipvs: don't check for presence of nat extension")
from ipvs-next had changed the same line to
if (ct && !nf_ct_is_untracked(ct) && (ct->status & IPS_NAT_MASK)) {
When ipvs-next got merged into nf-next, the merge resolution took
the first version, dropping the conversion of nfct_nat().
While this doesn't cause a problem at the moment, it will once we stop
adding the nat extension by default.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Only "cache" needs to use ulong (its used with set_bit()), missed can use
u16. Also add build-time assertion to ensure event bits fit.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
If insertion of a new conntrack fails because the table is full, the kernel
searches the next buckets of the hash slot where the new connection
was supposed to be inserted at for an entry that hasn't seen traffic
in reply direction (non-assured), if it finds one, that entry is
is dropped and the new connection entry is allocated.
Allow the conntrack gc worker to also remove *assured* conntracks if
resources are low.
Do this by querying the l4 tracker, e.g. tcp connections are now dropped
if they are no longer established (e.g. in finwait).
This could be refined further, e.g. by adding 'soft' established timeout
(i.e., a timeout that is only used once we get close to resource
exhaustion).
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
commit 223b02d923
("netfilter: nf_conntrack: reserve two bytes for nf_ct_ext->len")
had to increase size of the extension offsets because total size of the
extensions had increased to a point where u8 did overflow.
3 years later we've managed to diet extensions a bit and we no longer
need u16. Furthermore we can now add a compile-time assertion for this
problem.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
get rid of the (now unused) nf_ct_ext_add_length define and also
rename the function to plain nf_ct_ext_add().
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
No need to track this for inkernel helpers anymore as
NF_CT_HELPER_BUILD_BUG_ON checks do this now.
All inkernel helpers know what kind of structure they
stored in helper->data.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Userspace should not abuse the kernel to store large amounts of data,
reject requests larger than the private area can accommodate.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
add a 32 byte scratch area in the helper struct instead of relying
on variable sized helpers plus compile-time asserts to let us know
if 32 bytes aren't enough anymore.
Not having variable sized helpers will later allow to add BUILD_BUG_ON
for the total size of conntrack extensions -- the helper extension is
the only one that doesn't have a fixed size.
The (useless!) NF_CT_HELPER_BUILD_BUG_ON(0); are added so that in case
someone adds a new helper and copy-pastes from one that doesn't store
private data at least some indication that this macro should be used
somehow is there...
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
By default the kernel emits all ctnetlink events for a connection.
This allows to select the types of events to generate.
This can be used to e.g. only send DESTROY events but no NEW/UPDATE ones
and will work even if sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_events is set to 0.
This was already possible via iptables' CT target, but the nft version has
the advantage that it can also be used with already-established conntracks.
The added nf_ct_is_template() check isn't a bug fix as we only support
mark and labels (and unlike ecache the conntrack core doesn't copy those).
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This function is now obsolete and always returns false.
This change has no effect on generated code.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
resurrect an old patch from Pablo Neira to remove the untracked objects.
Currently, there are four possible states of an skb wrt. conntrack.
1. No conntrack attached, ct is NULL.
2. Normal (kmem cache allocated) ct attached.
3. a template (kmalloc'd), not in any hash tables at any point in time
4. the 'untracked' conntrack, a percpu nf_conn object, tagged via
IPS_UNTRACKED_BIT in ct->status.
Untracked is supposed to be identical to case 1. It exists only
so users can check
-m conntrack --ctstate UNTRACKED vs.
-m conntrack --ctstate INVALID
e.g. attempts to set connmark on INVALID or UNTRACKED conntracks is
supposed to be a no-op.
Thus currently we need to check
ct == NULL || nf_ct_is_untracked(ct)
in a lot of places in order to avoid altering untracked objects.
The other consequence of the percpu untracked object is that all
-j NOTRACK (and, later, kfree_skb of such skbs) result in an atomic op
(inc/dec the untracked conntracks refcount).
This adds a new kernel-private ctinfo state, IP_CT_UNTRACKED, to
make the distinction instead.
The (few) places that care about packet invalid (ct is NULL) vs.
packet untracked now need to test ct == NULL vs. ctinfo == IP_CT_UNTRACKED,
but all other places can omit the nf_ct_is_untracked() check.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
1. Remove single !events condition check to deliver the missed event
even though there is no new event happened.
Consider this case:
1) nf_ct_deliver_cached_events is invoked at the first time, the
event is failed to deliver, then the missed is set.
2) nf_ct_deliver_cached_events is invoked again, but there is no
any new event happened.
The missed event is lost really.
It would try to send the missed event again after remove this check.
And it is ok if there is no missed event because the latter check
!((events | missed) & e->ctmask) could avoid it.
2. Correct the return value check of notify->fcn.
When send the event successfully, it returns 0, not postive value.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The __nf_nat_alloc_null_binding invokes nf_nat_setup_info which may
return NF_DROP when memory is exhausted, so convert NF_DROP to -ENOMEM
to make ctnetlink happy. Or ctnetlink_setup_nat treats it as a success
when one error NF_DROP happens actully.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Simon Horman says:
====================
Second Round of IPVS Updates for v4.12
please consider these clean-ups and enhancements to IPVS for v4.12.
* Removal unused variable
* Use kzalloc where appropriate
* More efficient detection of presence of NAT extension
====================
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Conflicts:
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ftp.c
There are no in-tree callers.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@bytheb.org>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The protonet pointer will unconditionally be rewritten, so just do the
needed assignment first.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@bytheb.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
__nf_nat_decode_session is called from nf_nat_decode_session as decodefn.
before calling decodefn, it already set rcu_read_lock. so rcu_read_lock in
__nf_nat_decode_session can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
There are two nf_conntrack_l4proto_udp4 declarations in the head file
nf_conntrack_ipv4/6.h. Now remove one which is not enbraced by the macro
CONFIG_NF_CT_PROTO_UDPLITE.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
This comments are obsolete and should go, as there are no set of rules
per CPU anymore.
Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
Remove & from function pointers to conform to the style found elsewhere
in the file. Done using the following semantic patch
// <smpl>
@r@
identifier f;
@@
f(...) { ... }
@@
identifier r.f;
@@
- &f
+ f
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
This patch replace list_entry with list_prev_entry as it makes the
code more clear to read.
Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
For string without format specifiers, use seq_puts(). For
seq_printf("\n"), use seq_putc('\n').
Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The following Coccinelle script was used to detect this:
@r@
expression x;
void* e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@
(
*((T *)e)
|
((T *)x)[...]
|
((T*)x)->f
|
- (T*)
e
)
Unnecessary parantheses are also remove.
Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Add and use nfnl_msg_type() function to replace opencoded nfnetlink
message type. I suggested this change, Arushi Singhal made an initial
patch to address this but was missing several spots.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
The expect check function __nf_ct_expect_check() asks the master_help is
necessary. So it is unnecessary to go ahead in ctnetlink_alloc_expect
when there is no help.
Actually the commit bc01befdcf ("netfilter: ctnetlink: add support for
user-space expectation helpers") permits ctnetlink create one expect
even though there is no master help. But the latter commit 3d058d7bc2
("netfilter: rework user-space expectation helper support") disables it
again.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
successful insert into the bysource hash sets IPS_SRC_NAT_DONE status bit
so we can check that instead of presence of nat extension which requires
extra deref.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
nf_nat_mangle_{udp,tcp}_packet() returns int. However, it is used as
bool type in many spots. Fix this by consistently handle this return
value as a boolean.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
When remove one expect, it needs three statements. And there are
multiple duplicated codes in current code. So add one common function
nf_ct_remove_expect to consolidate this.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Because the type of expecting, the member of nf_conn_help, is u8, it
would overflow after reach U8_MAX(255). So it doesn't work when we
configure the max_expected exceeds 255 with expect policy.
Now add the check for max_expected. Return the -EINVAL when it exceeds
the limit.
Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Mostly simple cases of overlapping changes (adding code nearby,
a function whose name changes, for example).
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Reject invalid updates to netfilter expectation policies, from Pablo
Neira Ayuso.
2) Fix memory leak in nfnl_cthelper, from Jeffy Chen.
3) Don't do stupid things if we get a neigh_probe() on a neigh entry
whose ops lack a solicit method. From Eric Dumazet.
4) Don't transmit packets in r8152 driver when the carrier is off, from
Hayes Wang.
5) Fix ipv6 packet type detection in aquantia driver, from Pavel
Belous.
6) Don't write uninitialized data into hw registers in bna driver, from
Arnd Bergmann.
7) Fix locking in ping_unhash(), from Eric Dumazet.
8) Make BPF verifier range checks able to understand certain sequences
emitted by LLVM, from Alexei Starovoitov.
9) Fix use after free in ipconfig, from Mark Rutland.
10) Fix refcount leak on force commit in openvswitch, from Jarno
Rajahalme.
11) Fix various overflow checks in AF_PACKET, from Andrey Konovalov.
12) Fix endianness bug in be2net driver, from Suresh Reddy.
13) Don't forget to wake TX queues when processing a timeout, from
Grygorii Strashko.
14) ARP header on-stack storage is wrong in flow dissector, from Simon
Horman.
15) Lost retransmit and reordering SNMP stats in TCP can be
underreported. From Yuchung Cheng.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (82 commits)
nfp: fix potential use after free on xdp prog
tcp: fix reordering SNMP under-counting
tcp: fix lost retransmit SNMP under-counting
sctp: get sock from transport in sctp_transport_update_pmtu
net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix race condition during open()
l2tp: fix PPP pseudo-wire auto-loading
bnx2x: fix spelling mistake in macros HW_INTERRUT_ASSERT_SET_*
l2tp: take reference on sessions being dumped
tcp: minimize false-positives on TCP/GRO check
sctp: check for dst and pathmtu update in sctp_packet_config
flow dissector: correct size of storage for ARP
net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: wake tx queues on ndo_tx_timeout
l2tp: take a reference on sessions used in genetlink handlers
l2tp: hold session while sending creation notifications
l2tp: fix duplicate session creation
l2tp: ensure session can't get removed during pppol2tp_session_ioctl()
l2tp: fix race in l2tp_recv_common()
sctp: use right in and out stream cnt
bpf: add various verifier test cases for self-tests
bpf, verifier: fix rejection of unaligned access checks for map_value_adj
...
We should unregister the net_device first, before we give back
our reference on xdp_prog. Otherwise xdp_prog may be freed
before .ndo_stop() disabled the datapath. Found by code inspection.
Fixes: ecd63a0217 ("nfp: add XDP support in the driver")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
People are using bonding over Infiniband IPoIB connections, and who knows
what else. Infiniband has a hardware address length of 20 octets
(INFINIBAND_ALEN), and the network core defines a MAX_ADDR_LEN of 32.
Various places in the bonding code are currently hard-wired to 6 octets
(ETH_ALEN), such as the 3ad code, which I've left untouched here. Besides,
only alb is currently possible on Infiniband links right now anyway, due
to commit 1533e77315, so the alb code is where most of the changes are.
One major component of this change is the addition of a bond_hw_addr_copy
function that takes a length argument, instead of using ether_addr_copy
everywhere that hardware addresses need to be copied about. The other
major component of this change is converting the bonding code from using
struct sockaddr for address storage to struct sockaddr_storage, as the
former has an address storage space of only 14, while the latter is 128
minus a few, which is necessary to support bonding over device with up to
MAX_ADDR_LEN octet hardware addresses. Additionally, this probably fixes
up some memory corruption issues with the current code, where it's
possible to write an infiniband hardware address into a sockaddr declared
on the stack.
Lightly tested on a dual mlx4 IPoIB setup, which properly shows a 20-octet
hardware address now:
$ cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) (fail_over_mac active)
Primary Slave: mlx4_ib0 (primary_reselect always)
Currently Active Slave: mlx4_ib0
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 100
Down Delay (ms): 100
Slave Interface: mlx4_ib0
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr:
80:00:02:08:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:e4:1d:2d:03:00:1d:67:01
Slave queue ID: 0
Slave Interface: mlx4_ib1
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr:
80:00:02:09:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:01:e4:1d:2d:03:00:1d:67:02
Slave queue ID: 0
Also tested with a standard 1Gbps NIC bonding setup (with a mix of
e1000 and e1000e cards), running LNST's bonding tests.
CC: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently the reordering SNMP counters only increase if a connection
sees a higher degree then it has previously seen. It ignores if the
reordering degree is not greater than the default system threshold.
This significantly under-counts the number of reordering events
and falsely convey that reordering is rare on the network.
This patch properly and faithfully records the number of reordering
events detected by the TCP stack, just like the comment says "this
exciting event is worth to be remembered". Note that even so TCP
still under-estimate the actual reordering events because TCP
requires TS options or certain packet sequences to detect reordering
(i.e. ACKing never-retransmitted sequence in recovery or disordered
state).
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The lost retransmit SNMP stat is under-counting retransmission
that uses segment offloading. This patch fixes that so all
retransmission related SNMP counters are consistent.
Fixes: 10d3be5692 ("tcp-tso: do not split TSO packets at retransmit time")
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the mc_list is longer than 256 addresses, we enter mc_promisc mode.
If we're in mc_promisc mode and the firmware doesn't support cascaded
multicast, normally we also insert our mc_list, to prevent stealing by
another VI. However, if the mc_list was too long, this isn't really
helpful - the MC groups that didn't fit in the list can still get
stolen, and having only some of them stealable will probably cause
more confusing behaviour than having them all stealable. Since
inserting 256 multicast filters takes a long time and can lead to MCDI
state machine timeouts, just skip the mc_list insert in this overflow
condition.
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jakub Kicinski says:
====================
nfp: ethtool link settings
This series adds support for getting and setting link settings
via the (moderately) new ethtool ksettings ops.
First patch introduces minimal speed and duplex reporting using
the information directly provided in PCI BAR0 memory.
Next few changes deal with the need to refresh port state read
from the service process and patch 6 finally uses that information
to provide link speed and duplex. Patches 7 and 8 add auto
negotiation and port type reporting.
Remaining changes provide the set support for speed and auto
negotiation. An upcoming series will also add port splitting
support via devlink.
Quite a bit of churn in this series is caused by the fact that
currently port speed and split changes will usually require a
reboot to take effect. Current service process code is not capable
of performing MAC reinitialization after chip has been passing
traffic. To make sure user is aware of this limitation we refuse
the configuration unless netdev is down, print warning to the logs
and if configuration was performed but did take effect we unregister
the netdev. Service process has a "reboot needed" sticky bit, so
reloading the driver will not bring the netdev back.
Note that there is a helper in patch 13 which is marked as
__always_inline, because the FIELD_* macros require the parameters
to be known at compilation time. I hope that is OK.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Florian Westphal