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Author SHA1 Message Date
David S. Miller 9c119ba54c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-03 19:38:22 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 974c37e9d8 netlink: fix for too early rmmod
Netlink code does module autoload if protocol userspace is asking for is
not ready. However, module can dissapear right after it was autoloaded.
Example: modprobe/rmmod stress-testing and xfrm_user.ko providing NETLINK_XFRM.

netlink_create() in such situation _will_ create userspace socket and
_will_not_ pin module. Now if module was removed and we're going to call
->netlink_rcv into nothing:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa02f842a
					       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	modules are loaded near these addresses here

IP: [<ffffffffa02f842a>] 0xffffffffa02f842a
PGD 161f067 PUD 1623063 PMD baa12067 PTE 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent
CPU 1
Pid: 11515, comm: ip Not tainted 2.6.33-rc5-netns-00594-gaaa5728-dirty #6 P5E/P5E
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa02f842a>]  [<ffffffffa02f842a>] 0xffffffffa02f842a
RSP: 0018:ffff8800baa3db48  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: ffff8800baa3dfd8 RBX: ffff8800be353640 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffffffff81959380 RSI: ffff8800bab7f130 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff8800baa3db58 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000011
R13: ffff8800be353640 R14: ffff8800bcdec240 R15: ffff8800bd488010
FS:  00007f93749656f0(0000) GS:ffff880002300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffffffffa02f842a CR3: 00000000ba82b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process ip (pid: 11515, threadinfo ffff8800baa3c000, task ffff8800bab7eb30)
Stack:
 ffffffff813637c0 ffff8800bd488000 ffff8800baa3dba8 ffffffff8136397d
<0> 0000000000000000 ffffffff81344adc 7fffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
<0> ffff8800baa3ded8 ffff8800be353640 ffff8800bcdec240 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff813637c0>] ? netlink_unicast+0x100/0x2d0
 [<ffffffff8136397d>] netlink_unicast+0x2bd/0x2d0

	netlink_unicast_kernel:
		nlk->netlink_rcv(skb);

 [<ffffffff81344adc>] ? memcpy_fromiovec+0x6c/0x90
 [<ffffffff81364263>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1d3/0x2d0
 [<ffffffff8133975b>] sock_sendmsg+0xbb/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8106cdeb>] ? __lock_acquire+0x27b/0xa60
 [<ffffffff810a18c3>] ? might_fault+0x73/0xd0
 [<ffffffff810a18c3>] ? might_fault+0x73/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8106db22>] ? __lock_release+0x82/0x170
 [<ffffffff810a190e>] ? might_fault+0xbe/0xd0
 [<ffffffff810a18c3>] ? might_fault+0x73/0xd0
 [<ffffffff81344c77>] ? verify_iovec+0x47/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8133a509>] sys_sendmsg+0x1a9/0x360
 [<ffffffff813c2be5>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x65/0x70
 [<ffffffff8106aced>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
 [<ffffffff813c2bc2>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x42/0x70
 [<ffffffff81197004>] ? __up_read+0x84/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8106ac95>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x145/0x190
 [<ffffffff813c207f>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
 [<ffffffff8100262b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code:  Bad RIP value.
RIP  [<ffffffffa02f842a>] 0xffffffffa02f842a
 RSP <ffff8800baa3db48>
CR2: ffffffffa02f842a

If module was quickly removed after autoloading, return -E.

Return -EPROTONOSUPPORT if module was quickly removed after autoloading.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-03 18:13:43 -08:00
Samir Bellabes e1d5a01072 genetlink: optimize ctrl_dumpfamily()
there is a unnecessary test which can be replaced by a good initialization in
the 'for' statement

Noticed by Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-13 20:37:45 -08:00
Octavian Purdila 09ad9bc752 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>
2009-11-25 15:14:13 -08:00
Johannes Berg 649300b927 netlink: remove subscriptions check on notifier
The netlink URELEASE notifier doesn't notify for
sockets that have been used to receive multicast
but it should be called for such sockets as well
since they might _also_ be used for sending and
not solely for receiving multicast. We will need
that for nl80211 (generic netlink sockets) in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-17 04:08:49 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 13cfa97bef net: netlink_getname, packet_getname -- use DECLARE_SOCKADDR guard
Use guard DECLARE_SOCKADDR in a few more places which allow
us to catch if the structure copied back is too big.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 20:54:41 -08:00
Eric Paris 3f378b6844 net: pass kern to net_proto_family create function
The generic __sock_create function has a kern argument which allows the
security system to make decisions based on if a socket is being created by
the kernel or by userspace.  This patch passes that flag to the
net_proto_family specific create function, so it can do the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-05 22:18:14 -08:00
Krishna Kumar 988ade6b8e genetlink: Optimize and one bug fix in genl_generate_id()
1. GENL_MIN_ID is a valid id -> no need to start at
   GENL_MIN_ID + 1.
2. Avoid going through the ids two times: If we start at
   GENL_MIN_ID+1 (*or bigger*) and all ids are over!, the
   code iterates through the list twice (*or lesser*).
3. Simplify code - no need to start at idx=0 which gets
   reset to GENL_MIN_ID.

Patch on net-next-2.6. Reboot test shows that first id
passed to genl_register_family was 16, next two were
GENL_ID_GENERATE and genl_generate_id returned 17 & 18
(user level testing of same code shows expected values
across entire range of MIN/MAX).

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17 23:57:26 -07:00
Krishna Kumar 93860b08e3 genetlink: Optimize genl_register_family()
genl_register_family() doesn't need to call genl_family_find_byid
when GENL_ID_GENERATE is passed during register.

Patch on net-next-2.6, compile and reboot testing only.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17 23:57:26 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger ec1b4cf74c net: mark net_proto_ops as const
All usages of structure net_proto_ops should be declared const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07 01:10:46 -07:00
David S. Miller b7058842c9 net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned.
This provides safety against negative optlen at the type
level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial)
checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in
each and every implementation.

Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback
from Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
John Fastabend 5dba93aedf net: fix nlmsg len size for skb when error bit is set.
Currently, the nlmsg->len field is not set correctly in  netlink_ack()
for ack messages that include the nlmsg of the error frame.  This
corrects the length field passed to __nlmsg_put to use the correct
payload size.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-26 20:16:11 -07:00
Johannes Berg b8273570f8 genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)
Similar to commit d136f1bd36,
there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family,
which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit:

    BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183
    in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod
    2 locks held by rmmod/1510:
     #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130
     #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120
    Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150
     [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100
     [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60
     [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120
     [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130
     [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211]
     [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211]

Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock
before doing rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-24 15:44:05 -07:00
Jan Beulich 4481374ce8 mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages.  The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.

Some of the calculations (i.e.  those not intending to use high memory)
should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
Johannes Berg d136f1bd36 genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking
Since my commits introducing netns awareness into
genetlink we can get this problem:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: modprobe/1178/0x00000002
2 locks held by modprobe/1178:
 #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8135ee1a>] genl_register_mc_grou
 #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8135eeb5>] genl_register_mc_g
Pid: 1178, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-wl-34789-g95cb731-dirty #
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8103e285>] __schedule_bug+0x85/0x90
 [<ffffffff81403138>] schedule+0x108/0x588
 [<ffffffff8135b131>] netlink_table_grab+0xa1/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8135c3a7>] netlink_change_ngroups+0x47/0x100
 [<ffffffff8135ef0f>] genl_register_mc_group+0x12f/0x290

because I overlooked that netlink_table_grab() will
schedule, thinking it was just the rwlock. However,
in the contention case, that isn't actually true.

Fix this by letting the code grab the netlink table
lock first and then the RCU for netns protection.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-14 17:02:50 -07:00
David S. Miller 9a0da0d19c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-09-10 18:17:09 -07:00
Brian Haley b1f5719558 netlink: silence compiler warning
CC      net/netlink/genetlink.o
net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_register_mc_group’:
net/netlink/genetlink.c:139: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function

From following the code 'err' is initialized, but set it to zero to
silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04 20:36:52 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 3a6c2b419b netlink: constify nlmsghdr arguments
Consitfy nlmsghdr arguments to a couple of functions as preparation
for the next patch, which will constify the netlink message data in
all nfnetlink users.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-25 16:07:40 +02:00
Johannes Berg 1dacc76d00 net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks
Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events
are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of
pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms
cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of
strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices
disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a
32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is
lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00.

The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller
fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort.

A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the
ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a
32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its
internal information, which is worse than it not getting the
information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a
custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a
severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern
access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this
patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event.

A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink
users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for
64-bit quantities.

In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to
send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send
the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in
skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read
from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only
the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was
suggested by David Miller, my original approach required
always sending two skbs but that had various small problems.

To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and
recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg
parameter.

I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't
think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read()
rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong
(64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do
this, nor would it be a regression.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15 08:53:39 -07:00
Johannes Berg 134e63756d genetlink: make netns aware
This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No
generic netlink families except for the controller family
are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by
one and then set the family->netnsok member to true.

A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to
allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace,
for example when it applies to an object that lives in
that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns()
to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects
that do not have an associated netns).

The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast
the message in just init_net, which is currently correct
for all generic netlink families since they only work in
init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all
net namespaces because they do not care about the netns
at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of
the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or
genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns
aware in some way.

After this patch families can easily decide whether or
not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many
genl families us it for objects not related to networking
and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but
that will have to be done on a per family basis.

Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart
problem where network namespaces could be used, genl
families and multicast groups are numbered globally and
I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it
must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces
for those families that do not care about netns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 14:03:27 -07:00
Johannes Berg 6c04bb18dd netlink: use call_rcu for netlink_change_ngroups
For the network namespace work in generic netlink I need
to be able to call this function under rcu_read_lock(),
otherwise the locking becomes a nightmare and more locks
would be needed. Instead, just embed a struct rcu_head
(actually a struct listeners_rcu_head that also carries
the pointer to the memory block) into the listeners
memory so we can use call_rcu() instead of synchronising
and then freeing. No rcu_barrier() is needed since this
code cannot be modular.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 14:03:24 -07:00
Johannes Berg 487420df79 netlink: remove unused exports
I added those myself in commits b4ff4f04 and 84659eb5,
but I see no reason now why they should be exported,
only generic netlink uses them which cannot be modular.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 14:03:19 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 31e6d363ab net: correct off-by-one write allocations reports
commit 2b85a34e91
(net: No more expensive sock_hold()/sock_put() on each tx)
changed initial sk_wmem_alloc value.

We need to take into account this offset when reporting
sk_wmem_alloc to user, in PROC_FS files or various
ioctls (SIOCOUTQ/TIOCOUTQ)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-18 00:29:12 -07:00
Michał Mirosław a7b11d7382 genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()
This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink
family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste
occurrences in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 16:50:22 -07:00
David S. Miller 08abe18af1 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 562f477a54 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
  crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
  hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
  nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
  crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
  crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
  crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
  crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
  netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
  crypto: Fix dead links
  hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
  crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
  crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
  crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
  crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
  crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
  crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
  crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
  crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
  crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
  crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
  ...
2009-03-26 11:04:34 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 38938bfe34 netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag
This patch adds the NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag. This flag can
be used by unicast and broadcast listeners to avoid receiving
ENOBUFS errors.

Generally speaking, ENOBUFS errors are useful to notify two things
to the listener:

a) You may increase the receiver buffer size via setsockopt().
b) You have lost messages, you may be out of sync.

In some cases, ignoring ENOBUFS errors can be useful. For example:

a) nfnetlink_queue: this subsystem does not have any sort of resync
method and you can decide to ignore ENOBUFS once you have set a
given buffer size.

b) ctnetlink: you can use this together with the socket flag
NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR to stop getting ENOBUFS errors as
you do not need to resync (packets whose event are not delivered
are drop to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization).

Moreover, the use of NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS also reduces a "go up, go down"
effect in terms of performance which is due to the netlink congestion
control when the listener cannot back off. The effect is the following:

1) throughput rate goes up and netlink messages are inserted in the
receiver buffer.
2) Then, netlink buffer fills and overruns (set on nlk->state bit 0).
3) While the listener empties the receiver buffer, netlink keeps
dropping messages. Thus, throughput goes dramatically down.
4) Then, once the listener has emptied the buffer (nlk->state
bit 0 is set off), goto step 1.

This effect is easy to trigger with netlink broadcast under heavy
load, and it is more noticeable when using a big receiver buffer.
You can find some results in [1] that show this problem.

[1] http://1984.lsi.us.es/linux/netlink/

This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of
netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in
/proc/net/netlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-24 16:37:55 -07:00
David S. Miller b5bb14386e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6 2009-03-24 13:24:36 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso dd5b6ce6fd nefilter: nfnetlink: add nfnetlink_set_err and use it in ctnetlink
This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink
broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the
message building.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-23 13:21:06 +01:00
David S. Miller 508827ff0a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-05 02:06:47 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 4843b93c96 netlink: invert error code in netlink_set_err()
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>
2009-03-03 23:37:30 -08:00
Geert Uytterhoeven e9cc8bddae netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set.
Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new
config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2009-03-04 14:53:30 +08:00
Wei Yongjun 91744f6559 netlink: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26 23:07:34 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 1ce85fe402 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>
2009-02-24 23:18:28 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso be0c22a46c netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket option
This patch adds NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR which is a netlink
socket option that the listener can set to make netlink_broadcast()
return errors in the delivery to the caller. This option is useful
if the caller of netlink_broadcast() do something with the result
of the message delivery, like in ctnetlink where it drops a network
packet if the event delivery failed, this is used to enable reliable
logging and state-synchronization. If this socket option is not set,
netlink_broadcast() only reports ESRCH errors and silently ignore
ENOBUFS errors, which is what most netlink_broadcast() callers
should do.

This socket option is based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.
Patrick McHardy can exchange this patch for a beer from me ;).

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>
2009-02-20 01:01:08 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso ff491a7334 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 <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:56:36 -08:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 3efb40c2c6 genetlink: export genl_unregister_mc_group()
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>
2009-01-07 10:00:17 -08:00
Patrick McHardy ea5693ccc5 netlink: allow empty nested attributes
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>
2008-11-28 03:05:19 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 3755810ceb net: Make sure BHs are disabled in sock_prot_inuse_add()
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>
2008-11-24 14:05:22 -08:00
David S. Miller 6f756a8c36 net: Make sure BHs are disabled in sock_prot_inuse_add()
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>
2008-11-23 17:34:03 -08:00
Eric Dumazet c1fd3b9455 net: af_netlink should update its inuse counter
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>
2008-11-23 15:48:22 -08:00
Patrick McHardy b057efd4d2 netlink: constify struct nlattr * arg to parsing functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 11:59:11 -07:00
Johannes Berg 95a5afca4a 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>
2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
Alan Cox 113aa838ec net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts
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>
2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen 547b792cac net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
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>
2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
David S. Miller ea2aca084b Merge branch 'master' of 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
2008-07-05 23:08:07 -07:00
Wang Chen 8487460720 netlink: Unneeded local variable
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>
2008-07-01 19:55:09 -07:00
David S. Miller 1b63ba8a86 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
2008-06-28 01:19:40 -07:00
Julius Volz 10b595aff1 netlink: Fix some doc comments in net/netlink/attr.c
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>
2008-06-27 20:02:14 -07:00
David S. Miller 0344f1c66b Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	net/mac80211/tx.c
2008-06-19 16:00:04 -07:00