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* [PATCH] struct path: convert netlinkJosef Sipek2006-12-081-1/+1
| | | | | | 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>
* [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.Jamal Hadi Salim2006-12-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | 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>
* [GENETLINK]: Move command capabilities to flags.Jamal Hadi Salim2006-12-061-10/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [GENETLINK]: Add cmd dump completion.Jamal Hadi Salim2006-12-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [NETLINK]: Remove unused dst_pid field in netlink_skb_parmsThomas Graf2006-12-021-1/+0
| | | | | | | | 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>
* [GENETLINK] ctrl: Avoid empty CTRL_ATTR_OPS attribute when dumpingThomas Graf2006-12-021-22/+25
| | | | | | | 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>
* [GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headersThomas Graf2006-12-021-9/+8
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requestsThomas Graf2006-12-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possibleThomas Graf2006-12-022-8/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NET]: fix uaccess handlingHeiko Carstens2006-10-301-2/+3
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl familiesThomas Graf2006-09-221-0/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NETLINK]: Make use of NLA_STRING/NLA_NUL_STRING attribute validationThomas Graf2006-09-221-6/+4
| | | | | | | | Converts existing NLA_STRING attributes to use the new validation features, saving a couple of temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validationThomas Graf2006-09-221-10/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy. The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the string. Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Use BUILD_BUG_ON() for checking size of skb->cb.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-09-221-4/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interfaceThomas Graf2006-09-222-2/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the multicast to avoid duplicated notifications. nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to allow notification in atomic contexts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Convert core netlink handling to new netlink apiThomas Graf2006-09-221-19/+22
| | | | | | | | Fixes a theoretical memory and locking leak when the size of the netlink header would exceed the skb tailroom. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interfaceThomas Graf2006-09-222-1/+76
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Call panic if nl_table allocation failsAkinobu Mita2006-08-291-8/+6
| | | | | | | | This patch makes crash happen if initialization of nl_table fails in initcalls. It is better than getting use after free crash later. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.Panagiotis Issaris2006-07-211-9/+4
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] bcm43xx: netlink deadlock fixArjan van de Ven2006-07-031-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | reported by Jure Repinc: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6773 > > checked out dmesg output and found the message > > > > ====================================================== > > [ BUG: hard-safe -> hard-unsafe lock order detected! ] > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > starting at line 660 of the dmesg.txt that I will attach. The patch below should fix the deadlock, albeit I suspect it's not the "right" fix; the right fix may well be to move the rx processing in bcm43xx to softirq context. [it's debatable, ipw2200 hit this exact same bug; at some point it's better to bite the bullet and move this to the common layer as my patch below does] Make the nl_table_lock irq-safe; it's taken for read in various netlink functions, including functions that several wireless drivers (ipw2200, bcm43xx) want to call from hardirq context. The deadlock was found by the lock validator. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-303-3/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework.Darrel Goeddel2006-06-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch encapsulates the usage of eff_cap (in netlink_skb_params) within the security framework by extending security_netlink_recv to include a required capability parameter and converting all direct usage of eff_caps outside of the lsm modules to use the interface. It also updates the SELinux implementation of the security_netlink_send and security_netlink_recv hooks to take advantage of the sid in the netlink_skb_params struct. This also enables SELinux to perform auditing of netlink capability checks. Please apply, for 2.6.18 if possible. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'audit.b10' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-05-011-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] Audit Filter Performance [PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing [PATCH] More user space subject labels [PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages [PATCH] change lspp ipc auditing [PATCH] audit inode patch [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2 [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering [PATCH] no need to wank with task_lock() and pinning task down in audit_syscall_exit() [PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit} [PATCH] drop gfp_mask in audit_log_exit() [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit() [PATCH] sockaddr patch [PATCH] deal with deadlocks in audit_free()
| * [PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messagesSteve Grubb2006-05-011-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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]: cleanup unused macro in net/netlink/af_netlink.cSoyoung Park2006-04-291-1/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | 1 line removal, of unused macro. ran 'egrep -r' from linux-2.6.16/ for Nprintk and didn't see it anywhere else but here, in #define... Signed-off-by: Soyoung Park <speattle@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern2006-03-271-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sem2mutex: misc static one-file mutexesIngo Molnar2006-03-261-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NETLINK]: Add netlink_has_listeners for avoiding unneccessary event message ↵Patrick McHardy2006-03-201-4/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 use-after-free in netlink_recvmsgPatrick McHardy2006-03-121-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | The skb given to netlink_cmsg_recv_pktinfo is already freed, move it up a few lines. Coverity #948 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK] genetlink: Fix bugs spotted by Andrew Morton.Jamal Hadi Salim2006-02-131-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - panic() doesn't return. - Don't forget to unlock on genl_register_family() error path - genl_rcv_msg() is called via pointer so there's no point in declaring it `inline'. Notes: genl_ctrl_event() ignores the genlmsg_multicast() return value. lots of things ignore the genl_ctrl_event() return value. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix a severe bugAlexey Kuznetsov2006-02-091-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] genetlink: don't touch module ref countPer Liden2006-01-131-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Increasing the module ref count at registration will block the module from ever being unloaded. In fact, genetlink should not care about the owner at all. This patch removes the owner field from the struct registered with genetlink. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)Randy Dunlap2006-01-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [AF_NETLINK]: Fix DoS in netlink_rcv_skb()Martin Murray2006-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | From: Martin Murray <murrayma@citi.umich.edu> Sanity check nlmsg_len during netlink_rcv_skb. An nlmsg_len == 0 can cause infinite loop in kernel, effectively DoSing machine. Noted by Matin Murray. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] netlink oops fix due to incorrect error codeKirill Korotaev2006-01-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixed oops after failed netlink socket creation. Wrong parathenses in if() statement caused err to be 1, instead of negative value. Trivial fix, not trivial to find though. Signed-Off-By: Dmitry Mishin <dim@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-Off-By: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NETLINK] genetlink: fix cmd type in genl_ops to be consistent to u8Per Liden2006-01-031-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: move struct proto_ops to constEric Dumazet2006-01-031-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at least) This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const, so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing. This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly) I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make them const. This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and speedup some socket system calls. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Use tgid instead of pid for nlmsg_pidHerbert Xu2005-11-221-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Generic netlink familyThomas Graf2005-11-102-1/+580
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so called controller taking care of id management and name resolving. Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making life of simple modules a lot easier. Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers, it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module name. Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Generic netlink receive queue processorThomas Graf2005-11-101-0/+91
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduces netlink_run_queue() to handle the receive queue of a netlink socket in a generic way. Processes as much as there was in the queue upon entry and invokes a callback function for each netlink message found. The callback function may refuse a message by returning a negative error code but setting the error pointer to 0 in which case netlink_run_queue() will return with a qlen != 0. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Make netlink_callback->done() optionalThomas Graf2005-11-101-2/+4
| | | | | | | | Most netlink families make no use of the done() callback, making it optional gets rid of all unnecessary dummy implementations. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interfaceThomas Graf2005-11-102-1/+329
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.15Linus Torvalds2005-10-281-3/+0
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| * [NETLINK]: Remove dead code in af_netlink.cJayachandran C2005-10-261-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the variable nlk & call to nlk_sk as it does not have any side effect. Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran at gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* | [PATCH] gfp_t: net/*Al Viro2005-10-281-1/+1
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | - 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]: Don't prevent creating sockets when no kernel socket is registeredPatrick McHardy2005-09-061-18/+41
| | | | | | | | This broke the pam audit module which includes an incorrect check for -ENOENT instead of -EPROTONOTSUPP. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> 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 McHardy2005-08-291-2/+4
| | | | | 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 McHardy2005-08-291-2/+93
| | | | | | | | | 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>
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