From ff491a7334acfd74e515c896632e37e401f52676 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:56:36 -0800 Subject: netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast() Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no messages at all were delivered: 1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0. 2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone() failure, return -ENOBUFS. 3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH. With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the messages to the listeners have failed: 1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return -ENOBUFS. 2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0. 3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH. In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for conntrackd) in return. This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side if they hit ENOBUFS. BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- lib/kobject_uevent.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib/kobject_uevent.c') diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c index 318328ddbd1..38131028d16 100644 --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action, NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = 1; retval = netlink_broadcast(uevent_sock, skb, 0, 1, GFP_KERNEL); + /* ENOBUFS should be handled in userspace */ + if (retval == -ENOBUFS) + retval = 0; } else retval = -ENOMEM; } -- cgit v1.2.3 From f67f129e519fa87f8ebd236b6336fe43f31ee141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ming Lei Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 21:10:49 +0800 Subject: Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it from struct device, based on the following ideas: 1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way, we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject. 2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object) This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject as private part of struct device in future. [This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please ignore the last version.] Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/kobject_uevent.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib/kobject_uevent.c') diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c index 318328ddbd1..b2181cc8e4d 100644 --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c @@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action, kset = top_kobj->kset; uevent_ops = kset->uevent_ops; + /* skip the event, if uevent_suppress is set*/ + if (kobj->uevent_suppress) { + pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): %s: uevent_suppress " + "caused the event to drop!\n", + kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __func__); + return 0; + } /* skip the event, if the filter returns zero. */ if (uevent_ops && uevent_ops->filter) if (!uevent_ops->filter(kset, kobj)) { -- cgit v1.2.3 From f520360d93cdc37de5d972dac4bf3bdef6a7f6a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:09:05 -0700 Subject: kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent Right now, the kobject_uevent code blocks for each uevent that's being generated, due to using (for hystoric reasons) UHM_WAIT_EXEC as flag to call_usermode_helper(). Specifically, the effect is that each uevent that is being sent causes the code to wake up keventd, then block until keventd has processed the work. Needless to say, this happens many times during the system boot. This patches changes that to UHN_NO_WAIT (brilliant name for a constant btw) so that we only schedule the work to fire the uevent message, but do not wait for keventd to process the work. This removes one of the bottlenecks during boot; each one of them is only a small effect, but the sum of them does add up. [Note, distros that need this are broken, they should be setting CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "", that way this code path will never be excuted at all -- gregkh] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lib/kobject_uevent.c') diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c index b2181cc8e4d..e68e743bd86 100644 --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action, goto exit; retval = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, - env->envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC); + env->envp, UMH_NO_WAIT); } exit: -- cgit v1.2.3