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* [SCSI] SCSI and FC Transport: add netlink support for posting of transport ↵James Smart2006-09-021-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | events This patch formally adds support for the posting of FC events via netlink. It is a followup to the original RFC at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114530667923464&w=2 and the initial posting at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115507374832500&w=2 The patch has been updated to optimize the send path, per the discussions in the initial posting. Per discussions at the Storage Summit and at OLS, we are to use netlink for async events from transports. Also per discussions, to avoid a netlink protocol per transport, I've create a single NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT protocol, which can then be used by all transports. This patch: - Creates new files scsi_netlink.c and scsi_netlink.h, which contains the single and shared definitions for the SCSI Transport. It is tied into the base SCSI subsystem intialization. Contains a single interface routine, scsi_send_transport_event(), for a transport to send an event (via multicast to a protocol specific group). - Creates a new scsi_netlink_fc.h file, which contains the FC netlink event messages - Adds 3 new routines to the fc transport: fc_get_event_number() - to get a FC event # fc_host_post_event() - to send a simple FC event (32 bits of data) fc_host_post_vendor_event() - to send a Vendor unique event, with arbitrary amounts of data. Note: the separation of event number allows for a LLD to send a standard event, followed by vendor-specific data for the event. Note: This patch assumes 2 prior fc transport patches have been installed: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115555807316329&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115581614930261&w=2 Sorry - next time I'll do something like making these individual patches of the same posting when I know they'll be posted closely together. Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com> Tidy up configuration not to make SCSI always select NET Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* [PATCH] w1: netlink: Mark netlink group 1 as unused.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-06-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | netlink_w1 was moved to connector. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messagesSteve Grubb2006-05-011-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The below patch should be applied after the inode and ipc sid patches. This patch is a reworking of Tim's patch that has been updated to match the inode and ipc patches since its similar. [updated: > Stephen Smalley also wanted to change a variable from isec to tsec in the > user sid patch. ] Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [NETLINK]: Add netlink_has_listeners for avoiding unneccessary event message ↵Patrick McHardy2006-03-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | generation Keep a bitmask of multicast groups with subscribed listeners to let netlink users check for listeners before generating multicast messages. Queries don't perform any locking, which may result in false positives, it is guaranteed however that any new subscriptions are visible before bind() or setsockopt() return. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim<hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix a severe bugAlexey Kuznetsov2006-02-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink. Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket, so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be, and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock of rtnetlink. Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional argument to netlink_attachskb(). A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases: 1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot wait for buffer space. 2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered to some recipients. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interfaceThomas Graf2005-11-101-1/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NETLINK]: Reserve a slot for NETLINK_GENERIC.David S. Miller2005-09-141-0/+1
| | | | | | As requested by Jamal. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Add netlink connector.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-09-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional message bus using netlink as it's backend. Connector was created to eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus direction. Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as one of it's backends netlink based network. One must register callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called. From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward: socket(); bind(); send(); recv(); But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff handling... Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly easier way: int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *)); void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); struct cb_id { __u32 idx; __u32 val; }; idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in connector.h for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) - is a callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val will be received by connector core. Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's users. Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket. [ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and Andrew Morton -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix sparse warningsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-08-291-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_createPatrick McHardy2005-08-291-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Add set/getsockopt options to support more than 32 groupsPatrick McHardy2005-08-291-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP/NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIP are used to join/leave groups, NETLINK_PKTINFO is used to enable nl_pktinfo control messages for received packets to get the extended destination group number. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Use group numbers instead of bitmasks internallyPatrick McHardy2005-08-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Using the group number allows increasing the number of groups without beeing limited by the size of the bitmask. It introduces one limitation for netlink users: messages can't be broadcasted to multiple groups anymore, however this feature was never used inside the kernel. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Remove unused groups member from struct netlink_skb_parmsPatrick McHardy2005-08-291-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TCPDIAG]: Just rename everything to inet_diagArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-08-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Next changeset will rename tcp_diag.[ch] to inet_diag.[ch]. I'm taking this longer route so as to easy review, making clear the changes made all along the way. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.Harald Welte2005-08-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | - Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module - Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink protocol - Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Allocate and kill some netlink numbers.David S. Miller2005-08-081-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | NETLINK_ARPD is unused, allocate it to the Open-iSCSI folks. NETLINK_ROUTE6 and NETLINK_TAPBASE are no longer used, delete them. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [W1]: Do not use NFLOG netlink number.David S. Miller2005-07-241-1/+1
| | | | | | Use the reserved by never used NETLINK_SKIP value instead. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Reserve NETLINK_NETFILTER.David S. Miller2005-07-111-0/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Clear padding in netlink messagesPatrick McHardy2005-06-281-0/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: netlink_callback structure needs 5 args not 4Alexey Kuznetsov2005-06-211-1/+1
| | | | | | net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c uses up to ->args[4] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: fib_lookup() via netlinkRobert Olsson2005-06-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Below is a more generic patch to do fib_lookup via netlink. For others we should say that we discussed this as a way to verify route selection. It's also possible there are others uses for this. In short the fist half of struct fib_result_nl is filled in by caller and netlink call fills in the other half and returns it. In case anyone is interested there is a corresponding user app to compare the full routing table this was used to test implementation of the LC-trie. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Introduce NLMSG_NEW macro to better handle netlink flagsThomas Graf2005-06-181-7/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduces a new macro NLMSG_NEW which extends NLMSG_PUT but takes a flags argument. NLMSG_PUT stays there for compatibility but now calls NLMSG_NEW with flags == 0. NLMSG_PUT_ANSWER is renamed to NLMSG_NEW_ANSWER which now also takes a flags argument. Also converts the users of NLMSG_PUT_ANSWER to use NLMSG_NEW_ANSWER and fixes the two direct users of __nlmsg_put to either provide the flags or use NLMSG_NEW(_ANSWER). Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: New message building macrosThomas Graf2005-06-181-2/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NLMSG_PUT_ANSWER(skb, nlcb, type, length) Start a new netlink message as answer to a request, returns the message header. NLMSG_END(skb, nlh) End a netlink message, fixes total message length, returns skb->len. NLMSG_CANCEL(skb, nlh) Cancel the building process and trim whole message from skb again, returns -1. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Add audit uid to netlink credentialsSerge Hallyn2005-04-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Most audit control messages are sent over netlink.In order to properly log the identity of the sender of audit control messages, we would like to add the loginuid to the netlink_creds structure, as per the attached patch. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+188
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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