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2009-03-19rtnetlink: add new value for DHCP added routesStephen Hemminger
To improve manageability, it would be good to be able to disambiguate routes added by administrator from those added by DHCP client. The only necessary kernel change is to add value to rtnetlink include file so iproute2 utility can use it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logicPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows: If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error; else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag. This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify() wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification (including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets. This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify() (before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification fails and should resync itself. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-31headers_check fix: linux/rtnetlink.hJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make headers_check' warning: usr/include/linux/rtnetlink.h:328: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
2008-11-20ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the kernel and ixgbe driverAlexander Duyck
This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the kernel. The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) - which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) - which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x). Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-22Phonet: global definitionsRemi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-25net: drop unused BUG_TRAP()Ilpo Järvinen
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-20net_sched: Add size table for qdiscsJussi Kivilinna
Add size table functions for qdiscs and calculate packet size in qdisc_enqueue(). Based on patch by Patrick McHardy http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=115201979221729&w=2 Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-10net: Fix routing tables with id > 255 for legacy softwareKrzysztof Piotr Oledzki
Most legacy software do not like tables > 255 as rtm_table is u8 so tb_id is sent &0xff and it is possible to mismatch for example table 510 with table 254 (main). This patch introduces RT_TABLE_COMPAT=252 so the code uses it if tb_id > 255. It makes such old applications happy, new ones are still able to use RTA_TABLE to get a proper table id. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03route: Mark unused routing attributes as suchThomas Graf
Also removes an unused policy entry for an attribute which is only used in kernel->user direction. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-23[RTNETLINK]: Fix bogus ASSERT_RTNL warningPatrick McHardy
ASSERT_RTNL uses mutex_trylock to test whether the rtnl_mutex is held. This bogus warnings when running in atomic context, which f.e. happens when adding secondary unicast addresses through macvlan or vlan or when synchronizing multicast addresses from wireless devices. Mid-term we might want to consider moving all address updates to process context since the locking seems overly complicated, for now just fix the bogus warning by changing ASSERT_RTNL to use mutex_is_locked(). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-05[NET] rtnetlink.c: remove no longer used functionsAdrian Bunk
This patch removes the following no longer used functions: - rtattr_parse() - rtattr_strlcpy() - __rtattr_parse_nested_compat() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware (v3)Denis V. Lunev
After this patch none of the netlink callback support anything except the initial network namespace but the rtnetlink infrastructure now handles multiple network namespaces. Changes from v2: - IPv6 addrlabel processing Changes from v1: - no need for special rtnl_unlock handling - fixed IPv6 ndisc Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Support RFC3484 configurable address selection policy table.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Policy table is implemented as an RCU linear list since we do not expect large list nor frequent updates. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-12[IPV6]: Add ifindex field to ND user option messages.Pierre Ynard
Userland neighbor discovery options are typically heavily involved with the interface on which thay are received: add a missing ifindex field to the original struct. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPv6]: Export userland ND options through netlink (RDNSS support)Pierre Ynard
As discussed before, this patch provides userland with a way to access relevant options in Router Advertisements, after they are processed and validated by the kernel. Extra options are processed in a generic way; this patch only exports RDNSS options described in RFC5006, but support to control which options are exported could be easily added. A new rtnetlink message type is defined, to transport Neighbor Discovery options, along with optional context information. At the moment only the address of the router sending an RDNSS option is included, but additional attributes may be later defined, if needed by new use cases. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-30[TCP]: Allow minimum RTO to be configurable via routing metrics.David S. Miller
Cell phone networks do link layer retransmissions and other things that cause unnecessary timeout retransmits. So allow the minimum RTO to be inflated per-route to deal with this. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[RTNETLINK]: Fix rtnetlink compat attribute patchPatrick McHardy
Sent the wrong patch previously. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[RTNETLINK]: Add nested compat attributePatrick McHardy
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a backwards compatible way. The attribute looks like this: struct { [ compat contents ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = total size, .rta_type = type, } rta; struct old_structure struct; [ nested top-level attribute ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = nest size, .rta_type = type, } nest_attr; [ optional 0 .. n nested attributes ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = private attribute len, .rta_type = private attribute typ, } nested_attr; struct nested_data data; }; Since both userspace and kernel deal correctly with attributes that are larger than expected old versions will just parse the compat part and ignore the rest. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[IPV4]: The scheduled removal of multipath cached routing support.David S. Miller
With help from Chris Wedgwood. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[RTNL]: Message handler registration interfaceThomas Graf
This patch adds a new interface to register rtnetlink message handlers replacing the exported rtnl_links[] array which required many message handlers to be exported unnecessarly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08[NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bitsThomas Graf
Restore API compatibility due to bits moved from rtnetlink.h to separate headers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[RTNETLINK]: Add rtnl_put_cacheinfo() to unify some codeThomas Graf
IPv4, IPv6, and DECNet all use struct rta_cacheinfo in a similiar way, therefore rtnl_put_cacheinfo() is added to reuse code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[IPv6] prefix: Convert RTM_NEWPREFIX notifications to use the new netlink apiThomas Graf
RTM_GETPREFIX is completely unused and is thus removed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28[NET]: Move netlink interface bits to linux/if_link.h.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Moving netlink interface bits to linux/if.h is rather troublesome for applications including both linux/if.h (which was changed to be included from linux/rtnetlink.h automatically) and net/if.h. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[RTNETLINK]: Unexport rtnl socketThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[RTNETLINK]: Add rtnetlink notification interfaceThomas Graf
Adds rtnl_notify() to send rtnetlink notification messages and rtnl_set_sk_err() to report notification errors as socket errors in order to indicate the need of a resync due to loss of events. nlmsg_report() is added to properly document the meaning of NLM_F_ECHO. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[RTNETLINK]: Use rtnl_unicast() for rtnetlink unicastsThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NET]: Increate RT_TABLE_MAX to 2^32Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NET]: Introduce RTA_TABLE/FRA_TABLE attributesPatrick McHardy
Introduce RTA_TABLE route attribute and FRA_TABLE routing rule attribute to hold 32 bit routing table IDs. Usespace compatibility is provided by continuing to accept and send the rtm_table field, but because of its limited size it can only carry the low 8 bits of the table ID. This implies that if larger IDs are used, _all_ userspace programs using them need to use RTA_TABLE. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[DECNET]: Covert rules to use generic codeSteven Whitehouse
This patch converts the DECnet rules code to use the generic rules system created by Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NEIGH]: Move netlink neighbour table bits to linux/neighbour.hThomas Graf
rtnetlink_rcv_msg() is not longer required to parse attributes for the neighbour tables layer, remove dependency on obsolete and buggy rta_buf. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NEIGH]: Move netlink neighbour bits to linux/neighbour.hThomas Graf
Moves netlink neighbour bits to linux/neighbour.h. Also moves bits to be exported to userspace from net/neighbour.h to linux/neighbour.h and removes __KERNEL__ guards, userspace is not supposed to be using it. rtnetlink_rcv_msg() is not longer required to parse attributes for the neighbour layer, remove dependency on obsolete and buggy rta_buf. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NET]: Move netlink interface bits to linux/if.hThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[IPv4]: Move interface address bits to linux/if_addr.hThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[IPV6]: Policy Routing RulesThomas Graf
Adds support for policy routing rules including a new local table for routes with a local destination. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-26Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-23[IPV4]: Add fib rule netlink notificationsPatrick McHardy
To really make sense of route notifications in the presence of multiple tables, userspace also needs to be notified about routing rule updates. Notifications are sent to the so far unused RTNLGRP_NOP1 (now RTNLGRP_RULE) group. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET] rtnetlink: Add RTPROT entry for Netsukuku.Alpt
The Netsukuku daemon is using the same number to mark its routes, you can see it here: http://hinezumilabs.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/netsukuku/src/krnl_route.h?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET]: Convert RTNL to mutex.Stephen Hemminger
This patch turns the RTNL from a semaphore to a new 2.6.16 mutex and gets rid of some of the leftover legacy. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NET] core: add RFC2863 operstateStefan Rompf
this patch adds a dormant flag to network devices, RFC2863 operstate derived from these flags and possibility for userspace interaction. It allows drivers to signal that a device is unusable for user traffic without disabling queueing (and therefore the possibility for protocol establishment traffic to flow) and a userspace supplicant (WPA, 802.1X) to mark a device unusable without changes to the driver. It is the result of our long discussion. However I must admit that it represents what Jamal and I agreed on with compromises towards Krzysztof, but Thomas and Krzysztof still disagree with some parts. Anyway I think it should be applied. Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-12-19[RTNETLINK]: Fix RTNLGRP definitions in rtnetlink.hKristian Slavov
I reported a problem and gave hints to the solution, but nobody seemed to react. So I prepared a patch against 2.6.14.4. Tested on 2.6.14.4 with "ip monitor addr" and with the program attached, while adding and removing IPv6 address. Both programs didn't receive any messages. Tested 2.6.14.4 + this patch, and both programs received add and remove messages. Signed-off-by: Kristian Slavov <kristian.slavov@nomadiclab.com> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> ACKed-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasksPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-28[NETLINK]: Missing padding fields in dumped structuresPatrick McHardy
Plug holes with padding fields and initialized them to zero. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-28[NETLINK]: Clear padding in netlink messagesPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[PKT_SCHED]: Packet classification based on textsearch (ematch)Thomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18[RTNETLINK]: Add RTA_(PUT|GET) shortcuts for u8, u16, and flagThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18[NETLINK]: Fix RTA_NEST_CANCEL().Thomas Graf
Only skb_trim() if 'start' is non-NULL. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18[NETLINK]: Neighbour table configuration and statistics via rtnetlinkThomas Graf
To retrieve the neighbour tables send RTM_GETNEIGHTBL with the NLM_F_DUMP flag set. Every neighbour table configuration is spread over multiple messages to avoid running into message size limits on systems with many interfaces. The first message in the sequence transports all not device specific data such as statistics, configuration, and the default parameter set. This message is followed by 0..n messages carrying device specific parameter sets. Although the ordering should be sufficient, NDTA_NAME can be used to identify sequences. The initial message can be identified by checking for NDTA_CONFIG. The device specific messages do not contain this TLV but have NDTPA_IFINDEX set to the corresponding interface index. To change neighbour table attributes, send RTM_SETNEIGHTBL with NDTA_NAME set. Changeable attribute include NDTA_THRESH[1-3], NDTA_GC_INTERVAL, and all TLVs in NDTA_PARMS unless marked otherwise. Device specific parameter sets can be changed by setting NDTPA_IFINDEX to the interface index of the corresponding device. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18[NETLINK] Routing attribute related shortcutsThomas Graf
RTA_GET_U(32|64)(tlv) Assumes TLV is a u32/u64 field and returns its value. RTA_GET_[M]SECS(tlv) Assumes TLV is a u64 and transports jiffies converted to seconds or milliseconds and returns its value. RTA_PUT_U(32|64)(skb, type, value) Appends %value as fixed u32/u64 to %skb as TLV %type. RTA_PUT_[M]SECS(skb, type, jiffies) Converts %jiffies to secs/msecs and appends it as u64 to %skb as TLV %type. RTA_PUT_STRING(skb, type, string) Appends %NUL terminated %string to %skb as TLV %type. RTA_NEST(skb, type) Starts a nested TLV %type and returns the nesting handle. RTA_NEST_END(skb, nesting_handle) Finishes the nested TLV %nesting_handle, must be called symmetric to RTA_NEST(). Returns skb->len RTA_NEST_CANCEL(skb, nesting_handle) Cancel the nested TLV %nesting_handle and trim nested TLV from skb again, returns -1. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>