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History log of /net/decnet/dn_dev.c
Revision	Date	Author	Comments
b5c5c36d367c670b9a93b1029d9b3af8610d9535	20-Aug-2014	Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>	dn_dev: Use time_before The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the Coccinelle semantic patch making this change is as follows: @change@ expression E1,E2; @@ ( - (jiffies - E1) < E2 + time_before(jiffies, E1+E2) ) Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
90f62cf30a78721641e08737bda787552428061e	23-Apr-2014	Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>	net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that privileged executable did not intend to do. To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls. Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
9a32b860431aee0cba50ab2414bfa29f4bb2f0d7	08-Dec-2013	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>	dn_dev: add support for IFA_FLAGS nl attribute Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fe2c6338fd2c6f383c4d4164262f35c8f3708e1f	12-Jun-2013	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>	net: Convert uses of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table Reduce the uses of this unnecessary typedef. Done via perl script: $ git grep --name-only -w ctl_table net \| \ xargs perl -p -i -e '\ sub trim { my ($local) = @_; $local =~ s/(^\s+\|\s+$)//g; return $local; } \ s/\b(?<!struct\s)ctl_table\b(\s\\s*\|\s+\w+)/"struct ctl_table " . trim($1)/ge' Reflow the modified lines that now exceed 80 columns. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
661d2967b3f1b34eeaa7e212e7b9bbe8ee072b59	21-Mar-2013	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>	rtnetlink: Remove passing of attributes into rtnl_doit functions With decnet converted, we can finally get rid of rta_buf and its computations around it. It also gets rid of the minimal header length verification since all message handlers do that explicitly anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ece31ffd539e8e2b586b1ca5f50bc4f4591e3893	18-Feb-2013	Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>	net: proc: change proc_net_remove to remove_proc_entry proc_net_remove is only used to remove proc entries that under /proc/net,it's not a general function for removing proc entries of netns. if we want to remove some proc entries which under /proc/net/stat/, we still need to call remove_proc_entry. this patch use remove_proc_entry to replace proc_net_remove. we can remove proc_net_remove after this patch. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
d4beaa66add8aebf83ab16d2fde4e4de8dac36df	18-Feb-2013	Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>	net: proc: change proc_net_fops_create to proc_create Right now, some modules such as bonding use proc_create to create proc entries under /proc/net/, and other modules such as ipv4 use proc_net_fops_create. It looks a little chaos.this patch changes all of proc_net_fops_create to proc_create. we can remove proc_net_fops_create after this patch. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
dfc47ef8639facd77210e74be831943c2fdd9c74	16-Nov-2012	Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>	net: Push capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) into the rtnl methods - In rtnetlink_rcv_msg convert the capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) check to ns_capable(net->user-ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN). Allowing unprivileged users to make netlink calls to modify their local network namespace. - In the rtnetlink doit methods add capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) so that calls that are not safe for unprivileged users are still protected. Later patches will remove the extra capable calls from methods that are safe for unprivilged users. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
15e473046cb6e5d18a4d0057e61d76315230382b	07-Sep-2012	Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>	netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
9bdcc88fa03a09c1f0478c0d7443d0aba7872210	19-Apr-2012	Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>	net decnet: Convert to use register_net_sysctl Using an ascii path to register_net_sysctl as opposed to the slightly awkward ctl_path allows for much simpler code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
5dd3df105b9f6cb7dd2472b59e028d0d1c878ecb	19-Apr-2012	Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>	net: Move all of the network sysctls without a namespace into init_net. This makes it clearer which sysctls are relative to your current network namespace. This makes it a little less error prone by not exposing sysctls for the initial network namespace in other namespaces. This is the same way we handle all of our other network interfaces to userspace and I can't honestly remember why we didn't do this for sysctls right from the start. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
b21dddb9dfe50ca1e205faf4b25900895494d25b	02-Apr-2012	David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	decnet: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error prone and make code hard to audit. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
9ffc93f203c18a70623f21950f1dd473c9ec48cd	28-Mar-2012	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>	Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\sinclude\s<asm/system[.]h>.\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\sinclude\s<asm/system[.]h>' ` Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cf778b00e96df6d64f8e21b8395d1f8a859ecdc7	12-Jan-2012	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>	net: reintroduce missing rcu_assign_pointer() calls commit a9b3cd7f32 (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, y). We miss needed barriers, even on x86, when y is not NULL. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
a9b3cd7f323b2e57593e7215362a7b02fc933e3a	01-Aug-2011	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>	rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon change to not handle the special case. Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value. //smpl @@ expression P; @@ - rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL) + RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
06f8fe11bb4a84de9d9faa50c7ffbe40b90d395a	01-Jul-2011	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>	decnet: Reduce switch/case indent Make the case labels the same indent as the switch. git diff -w shows differences for line wrapping. (fit multiple lines to 80 columns, join where possible) Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ea110733874d5176cb56dcf612a629ffac09dbf0	13-Jun-2011	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>	net: Remove casts of void * Unnecessary casts of void * clutter the code. These are the remainder casts after several specific patches to remove netdev_priv and dev_priv. Done via coccinelle script: $ cat cast_void_pointer.cocci @@ type T; T pt; void pv; @@ - pt = (T *)pv; + pt = pv; Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@conan.davemloft.net>
c7ac8679bec9397afe8918f788cbcef88c38da54	10-Jun-2011	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>	rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to a single page. This is not enough for additional interface info available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately 40 VFs were created per interface. Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate enough data to satisfy the request. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
1e547757eca3c30eeeac526716e4ae833c2a9a2f	15-Mar-2011	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>	net,rcu: convert call_rcu(dn_dev_free_ifa_rcu) to kfree_rcu() The rcu callback dn_dev_free_ifa_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(dn_dev_free_ifa_rcu). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
e67f88dd12f610da98ca838822f2c9b4e7c6100e	28-Apr-2011	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>	net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks. I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations. This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow on a workload adding/removing network devices in background. All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does roughly a revert of commits : 1c2d670f366 : [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks 6313c1e0992 : [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks This let writers fight for rtnl mutex and readers going full speed. It also takes care of phonet : phonet_route_get() is now called from rcu read section. I renamed it to phonet_route_get_rcu() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fc766e4c4965915ab52a1d1fa3c7a7b3e7bc07f0	29-Oct-2010	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>	decnet: RCU conversion and get rid of dev_base_lock While tracking dev_base_lock users, I found decnet used it in dnet_select_source(), but for a wrong purpose: Writers only hold RTNL, not dev_base_lock, so readers must use RCU if they cannot use RTNL. Adds an rcu_head in struct dn_ifaddr and handle proper RCU management. Adds __rcu annotation in dn_route as well. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
b595076a180a56d1bb170e6eceda6eb9d76f4cd3	01-Nov-2010	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>	tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos "gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address", "between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already", "equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest", "relative", "memory", "offset", "already", Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
3fa21e07e6acefa31f974d57fba2b6920a7ebd1a	18-May-2010	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>	net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s This patch removes from net/ (but not any netfilter files) all the unnecessary return; statements that precede the last closing brace of void functions. It does not remove the returns that are immediately preceded by a label as gcc doesn't like that. Done via: $ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -l "return;\n}" net/ \| \ xargs perl -i -e 'local $/ ; while (<>) { s/\n[ \t\n]+return;\n}/\n}/g; print; }' Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
22bedad3ce112d5ca1eaf043d4990fa2ed698c87	01-Apr-2010	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>	net: convert multicast list to list_head Converts the list and the core manipulating with it to be the same as uc_list. +uses two functions for adding/removing mc address (normal and "global" variant) instead of a function parameter. +removes dev_mcast.c completely. +exposes netdev_hw_addr_list_* macros along with __hw_addr_* functions for manipulation with lists on a sandbox (used in bonding and 80211 drivers) Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
5a0e3ad6af8660be21ca98a971cd00f331318c05	24-Mar-2010	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
09ad9bc752519cc167d0a573e1acf69b5c707c67	26-Nov-2009	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>	net: use net_eq to compare nets Generated with the following semantic patch @@ struct net n1; struct net n2; @@ - n1 == n2 + net_eq(n1, n2) @@ struct net n1; struct net n2; @@ - n1 != n2 + !net_eq(n1, n2) applied over {include,net,drivers/net}. Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
f8572d8f2a2ba75408b97dc24ef47c83671795d7	05-Nov-2009	Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>	sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be revmoed. In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not to pass one. Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
e5c140a340c4796054b0f6e9035e1faa7edfa6d6	11-Nov-2009	stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>	decnet: convert dndev_lock to spinlock There is no reason for this lock to be reader/writer since the reader only has lock held for a very brief period. The overhead of read_lock is more expensive than spinlock. Compile tested only, I am not a decnet user. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
41bdecf17e6dba92256c65972ec79a482d978be5	11-Nov-2009	stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>	decnet: add RTNL lock when reading address list Add missing locking in the case of auto binding to the default device. The address list might change while this code is looking at the list. Compile tested only, I am not a decnet user. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fa918602b61a71b4a9f47861b7e65c70258516c1	10-Nov-2009	stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>	decnet: use RCU to find network devices When showing device statistics use RCU rather than read_lock(&dev_base_lock) Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
b4d745db12bd2d45a456565ed63325bbfc689e68	04-Nov-2009	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>	decnet: avoid touching device refcount in dn_dev_by_index() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
8d65af789f3e2cf4cfbdbf71a0f7a61ebcd41d38	24-Sep-2009	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>	sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
e57c624be8f99e56560fd2f4f485fe29f28dd74f	25-Feb-2009	Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>	decnet: fix sparse warnings: symbol shadows an earlier one Impact: Remove redundant variable declarations, resp. rename inner scope variable. Fix this sparse warnings: net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1252:40: warning: symbol 'skb' shadows an earlier one net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1223:24: originally declared here net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1582:29: warning: symbol 'val' shadows an earlier one net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1527:22: originally declared here net/decnet/dn_dev.c:687:21: warning: symbol 'err' shadows an earlier one net/decnet/dn_dev.c:670:13: originally declared here net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:182:21: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:173:16: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
8521c27ee79533db444dcac291992b6bf8d61fc8	25-Feb-2009	Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>	decnet: fix sparse warnings: context imbalance Impact: Attribute functions with __acquires(...) resp. __releases(...). Fix this sparse warnings: net/decnet/dn_dev.c:1324:13: warning: context imbalance in 'dn_dev_seq_start' - wrong count at exit net/decnet/dn_dev.c:1366:13: warning: context imbalance in 'dn_dev_seq_stop' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
1ce85fe402137824246bad03ff85f3913d565c17	25-Feb-2009	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>	netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic 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>
5eaa65b240c5eb7bf2235eb9dd177c83e6e3832c	11-Dec-2008	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>	net: Make static Sparse asked whether these could be static. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
c4106aa88a440430d387e022f2ad6dc1e0d52e98	27-Nov-2008	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>	decnet: remove private wrappers of endian helpers Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
95a5afca4a8d2e1cb77e1d4bc6ff9f718dc32f7a	17-Oct-2008	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>	net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) 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>
f221e726bf4e082a05dcd573379ac859bfba7126	16-Oct-2008	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>	sysctl: simplify ->strategy name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array may be needed (name). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ] Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
8fa0b315fc0c1a414da1371f1fc39523a657c192	16-Oct-2008	David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>	decnet: Fix compiler warning in dn_dev.c Use offsetof() instead of home-brewed version. Based upon initial patch by Steven Whitehouse and suggestions by Ben Hutchings. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>