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2009-03-03netlink: invert error code in netlink_set_err()Pablo Neira Ayuso
The callers of netlink_set_err() currently pass a negative value as parameter for the error code. However, sk->sk_err wants a positive error value. Without this patch, skb_recv_datagram() called by netlink_recvmsg() may return a positive value to report an error. Another choice to fix this is to change callers to pass a positive error value, but this seems a bit inconsistent and error prone to me. Indeed, the callers of netlink_set_err() assumed that the (usual) negative value for error codes was fine before this patch :). This patch also includes some documentation in docbook format for netlink_set_err() to avoid this sort of confusion. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-07genetlink: export genl_unregister_mc_group()Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL() to genl_unregister_mc_group(), to allow unregistering groups on the run. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() is not used as the rest of the functions exported by this module (eg: genl_register_mc_group) are also not _GPL(). Cleanup is currently done when unregistering a family, but there is no way to unregister a single multicast group due to that function not being exported. Seems to be a mistake as it is documented as for external consumption. This is needed by the WiMAX stack to be able to cleanup unused mc groups. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-11-28netlink: allow empty nested attributesPatrick McHardy
validate_nla() currently doesn't allow empty nested attributes. This makes userspace code unnecessarily complicated when starting and ending the nested attribute is done by generic upper level code and the inner attributes are dumped by a module. Add a special case to accept empty nested attributes. When the nested attribute is non empty, the same checks as before are performed. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-24net: Make sure BHs are disabled in sock_prot_inuse_add()Eric Dumazet
There is still a call to sock_prot_inuse_add() in af_netlink while in a preemptable section. Add explicit BH disable around this call. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23net: Make sure BHs are disabled in sock_prot_inuse_add()David S. Miller
The rule of calling sock_prot_inuse_add() is that BHs must be disabled. Some new calls were added where this was not true and this tiggers warnings as reported by Ilpo. Fix this by adding explicit BH disabling around those call sites. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-23net: af_netlink should update its inuse counterEric Dumazet
In order to have relevant information for NETLINK protocol, in /proc/net/protocols, we should use sock_prot_inuse_add() to update a (percpu and pernamespace) counter of inuse sockets. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28netlink: constify struct nlattr * arg to parsing functionsPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-16net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)Johannes Berg
Some code here depends on CONFIG_KMOD to not try to load protocol modules or similar, replace by CONFIG_MODULES where more than just request_module depends on CONFIG_KMOD and and also use try_then_request_module in ebtables. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific PartsAlan Cox
Clean up the various different email addresses of mine listed in the code to a single current and valid address. As Dave says his network merges for 2.6.28 are now done this seems a good point to send them in where they won't risk disrupting real changes. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-25net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ONIlpo Järvinen
Removes legacy reinvent-the-wheel type thing. The generic machinery integrates much better to automated debugging aids such as kerneloops.org (and others), and is unambiguous due to better naming. Non-intuively BUG_TRAP() is actually equal to WARN_ON() rather than BUG_ON() though some might actually be promoted to BUG_ON() but I left that to future. I could make at least one BUILD_BUG_ON conversion. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2008-07-01netlink: Unneeded local variableWang Chen
We already have a variable, which has the same capability. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
2008-06-27netlink: Fix some doc comments in net/netlink/attr.cJulius Volz
Fix some doc comments to match function and attribute names in net/netlink/attr.c. Signed-off-by: Julius Volz <juliusv@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/mac80211/tx.c
2008-06-18netlink: genl: fix circular lockingPatrick McHardy
genetlink has a circular locking dependency when dumping the registered families: - dump start: genl_rcv() : take genl_mutex genl_rcv_msg() : call netlink_dump_start() while holding genl_mutex netlink_dump_start(), netlink_dump() : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : try to detect this case and not take genl_mutex a second time - dump continuance: netlink_rcv() : call netlink_dump netlink_dump : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : take genl_mutex Register genl_lock as callback mutex with netlink to fix this. This slightly widens an already existing module unload race, the genl ops used during the dump might go away when the module is unloaded. Thomas Graf is working on a seperate fix for this. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-10Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tg3.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
2008-06-05netlink: Remove nonblock parameter from netlink_attachskbDenis V. Lunev
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03netlink: Improve returned error codesThomas Graf
Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and nla_nest_cancel() void functions. Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not big enough. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-28Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messagesEric Paris
Previously I added sessionid output to all audit messages where it was available but we still didn't know the sessionid of the sender of netlink messages. This patch adds that information to netlink messages so we can audit who sent netlink messages. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: security: fix up documentation for security_module_enable Security: Introduce security= boot parameter Audit: Final renamings and cleanup SELinux: use new audit hooks, remove redundant exports Audit: internally use the new LSM audit hooks LSM/Audit: Introduce generic Audit LSM hooks SELinux: remove redundant exports Netlink: Use generic LSM hook Audit: use new LSM hooks instead of SELinux exports SELinux: setup new inode/ipc getsecid hooks LSM: Introduce inode_getsecid and ipc_getsecid hooks
2008-04-19Netlink: Use generic LSM hookAhmed S. Darwish
Don't use SELinux exported selinux_get_task_sid symbol. Use the generic LSM equivalent instead. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit namespace comparision without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce an inline net_eq() to compare two namespaces. Without CONFIG_NET_NS, since no namespace other than &init_net exists, it is always 1. We do not need to convert 1) inline vs inline and 2) inline vs &init_net comparisons. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit seq_net_private->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists, no need to store net in seq_net_private. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set() and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-21netlink: make socket filters work on netlinkStephen Hemminger
Make socket filters work for netlink unicast and notifications. This is useful for applications like Zebra that get overrun with messages that are then ignored. Note: netlink messages are in host byte order, but packet filter state machine operations are done as network byte order. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-29[NET]: Make netlink_kernel_release publically available as sk_release_kernel.Denis V. Lunev
This staff will be needed for non-netlink kernel sockets, which should also not pin a namespace like tcp_socket and icmp_socket. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-29[NETLINK]: No need for a separate __netlink_release call.Denis V. Lunev
Merge it to netlink_kernel_release. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-12[GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.Pavel Emelyanov
The genl_unregister_family() calls the genl_unregister_mc_groups(), which takes and releases the genl_lock and then locks and releases this lock itself. Relax this behavior, all the more so the genl_unregister_mc_groups() is called from genl_unregister_family() only. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-01[PATCH] switch audit_get_loginuid() to task_struct *Al Viro
all callers pass something->audit_context Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-31[NETNS]: Fix race between put_net() and netlink_kernel_create().Pavel Emelyanov
The comment about "race free view of the set of network namespaces" was a bit hasty. Look (there even can be only one CPU, as discovered by Alexey Dobriyan and Denis Lunev): put_net() if (atomic_dec_and_test(&net->refcnt)) /* true */ __put_net(net); queue_work(...); /* * note: the net now has refcnt 0, but still in * the global list of net namespaces */ == re-schedule == register_pernet_subsys(&some_ops); register_pernet_operations(&some_ops); (*some_ops)->init(net); /* * we call netlink_kernel_create() here * in some places */ netlink_kernel_create(); sk_alloc(); get_net(net); /* refcnt = 1 */ /* * now we drop the net refcount not to * block the net namespace exit in the * future (or this can be done on the * error path) */ put_net(sk->sk_net); if (atomic_dec_and_test(&...)) /* * true. BOOOM! The net is * scheduled for release twice */ When thinking on this problem, I decided, that getting and putting the net in init callback is wrong. If some init callback needs to have a refcount-less reference on the struct net, _it_ has to be careful himself, rather than relying on the infrastructure to handle this correctly. In case of netlink_kernel_create(), the problem is that the sk_alloc() gets the given namespace, but passing the info that we don't want to get it inside this call is too heavy. Instead, I propose to crate the socket inside an init_net namespace and then re-attach it to the desired one right after the socket is created. After doing this, we also have to be careful on error paths not to drop the reference on the namespace, we didn't get the one on. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETLINK]: Add nla_append()Patrick McHardy
Used to append data to a message without a header or padding. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Namespace stop vs 'ip r l' race.Denis V. Lunev
During network namespace stop process kernel side netlink sockets belonging to a namespace should be closed. They should not prevent namespace to stop, so they do not increment namespace usage counter. Though this counter will be put during last sock_put. The raplacement of the correct netns for init_ns solves the problem only partial as socket to be stoped until proper stop is a valid netlink kernel socket and can be looked up by the user processes. This is not a problem until it resides in initial namespace (no processes inside this net), but this is not true for init_net. So, hold the referrence for a socket, remove it from lookup tables and only after that change namespace and perform a last put. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.Denis V. Lunev
Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal inside a namespace. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Double free in netlink_release.Denis V. Lunev
Netlink protocol table is global for all namespaces. Some netlink protocols have been virtualized, i.e. they have per/namespace netlink socket. This difference can easily lead to double free if more than 1 namespace is started. Count the number of kernel netlink sockets to track that this table is not used any more. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETLINK] af_netlink: kill some bloatIlpo Järvinen
net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_realloc_groups | -46 netlink_insert | -49 netlink_autobind | -94 netlink_clear_multicast_users | -48 netlink_bind | -55 netlink_setsockopt | -54 netlink_release | -86 netlink_kernel_create | -47 netlink_change_ngroups | -56 9 functions changed, 535 bytes removed, diff: -535 net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_table_ungrab | +53 1 function changed, 53 bytes added, diff: +53 net/netlink/af_netlink.o: 10 functions changed, 53 bytes added, 535 bytes removed, diff: -482 Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Add some acquires/releases sparse annotations.Eric Dumazet
Add __acquires() and __releases() annotations to suppress some sparse warnings. example of warnings : net/ipv4/udp.c:1555:14: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_start' - wrong count at exit net/ipv4/udp.c:1571:13: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_stop' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETLINK]: kzalloc() conversionEric Dumazet
nl_pid_hash_alloc() is renamed to nl_pid_hash_zalloc(). It is now returning zeroed memory to its callers. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETLINK]: af_netlink.c checkpatch cleanupsPatrick McHardy
Fix large number of checkpatch errors. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Consolidate net namespace related proc files creation.Denis V. Lunev
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13[NET]: Move unneeded data to initdata section.Denis V. Lunev
This patch reverts Eric's commit 2b008b0a8e96b726c603c5e1a5a7a509b5f61e35 It diets .text & .data section of the kernel if CONFIG_NET_NS is not set. This is safe after list operations cleanup. Signed-of-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07[NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeoutsPatrick McHardy
Commit ed6dcf4a in the history.git tree broke netlink_unicast timeouts by moving the schedule_timeout() call to a new function that doesn't propagate the remaining timeout back to the caller. This means on each retry we start with the full timeout again. ipc/mqueue.c seems to actually want to wait indefinitely so this behaviour is retained. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-01[NET]: Forget the zero_it argument of sk_alloc()Pavel Emelyanov
Finally, the zero_it argument can be completely removed from the callers and from the function prototype. Besides, fix the checkpatch.pl warnings about using the assignments inside if-s. This patch is rather big, and it is a part of the previous one. I splitted it wishing to make the patches more readable. Hope this particular split helped. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-26[NET]: Marking struct pernet_operations __net_initdata was inappropriateEric W. Biederman
It is not safe to to place struct pernet_operations in a special section. We need struct pernet_operations to last until we call unregister_pernet_subsys. Which doesn't happen until module unload. So marking struct pernet_operations is a disaster for modules in two ways. - We discard it before we call the exit method it points to. - Because I keep struct pernet_operations on a linked list discarding it for compiled in code removes elements in the middle of a linked list and does horrible things for linked insert. So this looks safe assuming __exit_refok is not discarded for modules. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-23[NETLINK]: Fix ACK processing after netlink_dump_startDenis V. Lunev
Revert to original netlink behavior. Do not reply with ACK if the netlink dump has bees successfully started. libnl has been broken by the cd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0 The following command reproduce the problem: /nl-route-get 192.168.1.1 Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15[NETLINK]: Don't leak 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create()Jesper Juhl
The Coverity checker spotted that we'll leak the storage allocated to 'listeners' in netlink_kernel_create() when the if (!nl_table[unit].registered) check is false. This patch avoids the leak. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious. This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced asynchronious user -> kernel communication. The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the user. Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing may occur in the arbitrary process context. This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet processing right in the netlink_unicast. Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched. EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: unify netlink kernel socket recognitionDenis V. Lunev
There are currently two ways to determine whether the netlink socket is a kernel one or a user one. This patch creates a single inline call for this purpose and unifies all the calls in the af_netlink.c No similar calls are found outside af_netlink.c. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskbDenis V. Lunev
netlink_sendskb does not use third argument. Clean it and save a couple of bytes. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make netlink processing routines semi-synchronious (inspired by rtnl) v2Denis V. Lunev
The code in netfilter/nfnetlink.c and in ./net/netlink/genetlink.c looks like outdated copy/paste from rtnetlink.c. Push them into sync with the original. Changes from v1: - deleted comment in nfnetlink_rcv_msg by request of Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>