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* [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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