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Patrick McHardy
4277a083ec [NETLINK]: Add netlink_has_listeners for avoiding unneccessary event message 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>
2006-03-20 18:52:01 -08:00
Alexey Kuznetsov
a70ea994a0 [NETLINK]: Fix a severe bug
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>
2006-02-09 16:43:38 -08:00
Thomas Graf
bfa83a9e03 [NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface
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>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Al Viro
dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 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>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
David S. Miller
20ae975dfd [NETLINK]: Reserve a slot for NETLINK_GENERIC.
As requested by Jamal.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-14 20:52:37 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
7672d0b544 [NET]: Add netlink connector.
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>
2005-09-11 19:15:07 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
6ed8a48582 [NETLINK]: Fix sparse warnings
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
066286071d [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
9a4595bc7e [NETLINK]: Add set/getsockopt options to support more than 32 groups
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>
2005-08-29 16:01:07 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
d629b836d1 [NETLINK]: Use group numbers instead of bitmasks internally
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>
2005-08-29 16:00:49 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
db08052979 [NETLINK]: Remove unused groups member from struct netlink_skb_parms
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:00:39 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
73c1f4a033 [TCPDIAG]: Just rename everything to inet_diag
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>
2005-08-29 15:57:44 -07:00
Harald Welte
4fdb3bb723 [NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.
- 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>
2005-08-29 15:35:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
4d479e40e1 [NETLINK]: Allocate and kill some netlink numbers.
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>
2005-08-08 13:48:02 -07:00
David S. Miller
48647feed9 [W1]: Do not use NFLOG netlink number.
Use the reserved by never used NETLINK_SKIP value instead.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-24 19:30:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
63522f7fdb [NETLINK]: Reserve NETLINK_NETFILTER.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-11 14:29:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
b3563c4fbf [NETLINK]: Clear padding in netlink messages
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-28 12:54:43 -07:00
Alexey Kuznetsov
18b504e25f [NETLINK]: netlink_callback structure needs 5 args not 4
net/ipv4/tcp_diag.c uses up to ->args[4]

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-21 12:38:48 -07:00
Robert Olsson
246955fe4c [NETLINK]: fib_lookup() via netlink
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>
2005-06-20 13:36:39 -07:00
Thomas Graf
1797754ea7 [NETLINK]: Introduce NLMSG_NEW macro to better handle netlink flags
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>
2005-06-18 22:53:48 -07:00
Thomas Graf
f88a10d656 [NETLINK]: New message building macros
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>
2005-06-18 22:50:12 -07:00
Serge Hallyn
c94c257c88 Add audit uid to netlink credentials
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>
2005-04-29 16:27:17 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00