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Patrick McHardy df6fb868d6 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: convert to generic netlink attribute functions
Get rid of the duplicated rtnetlink macros and use the generic netlink
attribute functions. The old duplicated stuff is moved to a new header
file that exists just for userspace.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:31 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger b95cce3576 [NET]: Wrap hard_header_parse
Wrap the hard_header_parse function to simplify next step of
header_ops conversion.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:51 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 2774c7aba6 [NET]: Make the loopback device per network namespace.
This patch makes loopback_dev per network namespace.  Adding
code to create a different loopback device for each network
namespace and adding the code to free a loopback device
when a network namespace exits.

This patch modifies all users the loopback_dev so they
access it as init_net.loopback_dev, keeping all of the
code compiling and working.  A later pass will be needed to
update the users to use something other than the initial network
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:49 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano de3cb747ff [NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:14 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman b4b510290b [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
this includes the controlling kernel sockets.

This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
to only support the initial network namespace.  Request
by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
that netlink protocol compiled in.

As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.

The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman e9dc865340 [NET]: Make device event notification network namespace safe
Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol
stack or a pseudo device.  If a protocol stack that does not have
support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a
device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly
can get confused and do the wrong thing.

To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted
this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on
devices that are not in the initial network namespace.

As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these
checks can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
Neil Horman 16fcec35e7 [NETFILTER]: Fix/improve deadlock condition on module removal netfilter
So I've had a deadlock reported to me.  I've found that the sequence of
events goes like this:

1) process A (modprobe) runs to remove ip_tables.ko

2) process B (iptables-restore) runs and calls setsockopt on a netfilter socket,
increasing the ip_tables socket_ops use count

3) process A acquires a file lock on the file ip_tables.ko, calls remove_module
in the kernel, which in turn executes the ip_tables module cleanup routine,
which calls nf_unregister_sockopt

4) nf_unregister_sockopt, seeing that the use count is non-zero, puts the
calling process into uninterruptible sleep, expecting the process using the
socket option code to wake it up when it exits the kernel

4) the user of the socket option code (process B) in do_ipt_get_ctl, calls
ipt_find_table_lock, which in this case calls request_module to load
ip_tables_nat.ko

5) request_module forks a copy of modprobe (process C) to load the module and
blocks until modprobe exits.

6) Process C. forked by request_module process the dependencies of
ip_tables_nat.ko, of which ip_tables.ko is one.

7) Process C attempts to lock the request module and all its dependencies, it
blocks when it attempts to lock ip_tables.ko (which was previously locked in
step 3)

Theres not really any great permanent solution to this that I can see, but I've
developed a two part solution that corrects the problem

Part 1) Modifies the nf_sockopt registration code so that, instead of using a
use counter internal to the nf_sockopt_ops structure, we instead use a pointer
to the registering modules owner to do module reference counting when nf_sockopt
calls a modules set/get routine.  This prevents the deadlock by preventing set 4
from happening.

Part 2) Enhances the modprobe utilty so that by default it preforms non-blocking
remove operations (the same way rmmod does), and add an option to explicity
request blocking operation.  So if you select blocking operation in modprobe you
can still cause the above deadlock, but only if you explicity try (and since
root can do any old stupid thing it would like....  :)  ).

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-11 11:28:26 +02:00
Adrian Bunk 1a3a206f7f [NETFILTER]: Make nf_ct_ipv6_skip_exthdr() static.
nf_ct_ipv6_skip_exthdr() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-31 02:28:26 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 7e2acc7e27 [NETFILTER]: Fix logging regression
Loading one of the LOG target fails if a different target has already
registered itself as backend for the same family. This can affect the
ipt_LOG and ipt_ULOG modules when both are loaded.

Reported and tested by: <t.artem@mailcity.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:29:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 61075af51f [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: mark protocols __read_mostly
Also remove two unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOLs and move the
nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4 declaration to the correct file.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:48:19 -07:00
Patrick McHardy a887c1c148 [NETFILTER]: Lower *tables printk severity
Lower ip6tables, arptables and ebtables printk severity similar to
Dan Aloni's patch for iptables.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:46:15 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai e2a3123fbe [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Introduces nf_ct_get_tuplepr and uses it
nf_ct_get_tuple() requires the offset to transport header and that bothers
callers such as icmp[v6] l4proto modules. This introduces new function
to simplify them.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:45:14 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai ffc3069048 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: make l3proto->prepare() generic and renames it
The icmp[v6] l4proto modules parse headers in ICMP[v6] error to get tuple.
But they have to find the offset to transport protocol header before that.
Their processings are almost same as prepare() of l3proto modules.
This makes prepare() more generic to simplify icmp[v6] l4proto module
later.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:44:50 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai d87d8469e2 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Increment error count on parsing IPv4 header
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14 20:44:23 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 0d53778e81 [NETFILTER]: Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug
Convert DEBUGP to pr_debug and fix lots of non-compiling debug statements.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:18:20 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 330f7db5e5 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: remove 'ignore_conntrack' argument from nf_conntrack_find_get
All callers pass NULL, this also doesn't seem very useful for modules.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:41 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai dacd2a1a5c [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: remove old memory allocator of conntrack
Now memory space for help and NAT are allocated by extension
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 9f15c5302d [NETFILTER]: x_tables: mark matches and targets __read_mostly
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:15 -07:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik ba9dda3ab5 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add TRACE target
The TRACE target can be used to follow IP and IPv6 packets through
the ruleset.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick NcHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:14 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 7c4e36bc17 [NETFILTER]: Remove redundant parentheses/braces
Removes redundant parentheses and braces (And add one pair in a
xt_tcpudp.c macro).

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:11 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt a47362a226 [NETFILTER]: add some consts, remove some casts
Make a number of variables const and/or remove unneeded casts.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:17:01 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt e1931b784a [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch xt_target->checkentry to bool
Switch the return type of target checkentry functions to boolean.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:59 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt ccb79bdce7 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch xt_match->checkentry to bool
Switch the return type of match functions to boolean

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:58 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 1d93a9cbad [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch xt_match->match to bool
Switch the return type of match functions to boolean

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:57 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt cff533ac12 [NETFILTER]: x_tables: switch hotdrop to bool
Switch the "hotdrop" variables to boolean

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:16:56 -07:00
Patrick McHarrdy 3c158f7f57 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: fix helper module unload races
When a helper module is unloaded all conntracks refering to it have their
helper pointer NULLed out, leading to lots of races. In most places this
can be fixed by proper use of RCU (they do already check for != NULL,
but in a racy way), additionally nf_conntrack_expect_related needs to
bail out when no helper is present.

Also remove two paranoid BUG_ONs in nf_conntrack_proto_gre that are racy
and not worth fixing.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHarrdy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07 13:40:26 -07:00
Bill Nottingham 75202e7689 [NET]: Fix comparisons of unsigned < 0.
Recent gcc versions emit warnings when unsigned variables are
compared < 0 or >= 0.

Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-03 18:08:47 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 3c2ad469c3 [NETFILTER]: Clean up table initialization
- move arp_tables initial table structure definitions to arp_tables.h
  similar to ip_tables and ip6_tables

- use C99 initializers

- use initializer macros where possible

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-10 23:47:43 -07:00
David Sterba 3dde6ad8fc Fix trivial typos in Kconfig* files
Fix several typos in help text in Kconfig* files.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 07:12:20 +02:00
Alexander E. Patrakov 39f5fb3035 kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
Documentation/modules.txt doesn't exist, but
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt does.

Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-02 20:58:11 +02:00
Patrick McHardy af65bdfce9 [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 3b5018d676 [NETFILTER]: {eb,ip6,ip}t_LOG: remove remains of LOG target overloading
All LOG targets always use their internal logging function nowadays, so
remove the incorrect error message and handle real errors (!= -EEXIST)
by failing to load.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:00 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 27d7ff46a3 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_to_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying to linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:29 -07:00
Patrick McHardy e6f689db51 [NETFILTER]: Use setup_timer
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 1b53d9042c [NETFILTER]: Remove changelogs and CVS IDs
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:35 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 6b88dd966b [SK_BUFF] ipv6: Use skb_network_offset in some more places
So that we reduce the number of direct accesses to skb->data.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25 22:26:38 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo b529ccf279 [NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helper
For the common "(struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data" sequence, so that we reduce the
number of direct accesses to skb->data and for consistency with all the other
cast skb member helpers.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:34 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 27a884dc3c [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t
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>
2007-04-25 22:26:28 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo b0e380b1d8 [SK_BUFF]: unions of just one member don't get anything done, kill them
Renaming skb->h to skb->transport_header, skb->nh to skb->network_header and
skb->mac to skb->mac_header, to match the names of the associated helpers
(skb[_[re]set]_{transport,network,mac}_header).

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:20 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo cfe1fc7759 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_header_len
For the common sequence "skb->h.raw - skb->nh.raw", similar to skb->mac_len,
that is precalculated tho, don't think we need to bloat skb with one more
member, so just use this new helper, reducing the number of non-skbuff.h
references to the layer headers even more.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:19 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo bff9b61ce3 [SK_BUFF]: Use the helpers to get the layer header pointer
Some more cases...

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:26:18 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 967b05f64e [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_set_transport_header
For the cases where the transport header is being set to a offset from
skb->data.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:17 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo badff6d01a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_transport_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->h.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->h.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple cases:

skb->h.raw = skb->data;
skb->h.raw = {skb_push|[__]skb_pull}()

The next ones will handle the slightly more "complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:15 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0660e03f6b [SK_BUFF]: Introduce ipv6_hdr(), remove skb->nh.ipv6h
Now the skb->nh union has just one member, .raw, i.e. it is just like the
skb->mac union, strange, no? I'm just leaving it like that till the transport
layer is done with, when we'll rename skb->mac.raw to skb->mac_header (or
->mac_header_offset?), ditto for ->{h,nh}.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:14 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo c9bdd4b525 [IP]: Introduce ip_hdrlen()
For the common sequence "skb->nh.iph->ihl * 4", removing a good number of open
coded skb->nh.iph uses, now to go after the rest...

Just out of curiosity, here are the idioms found to get the same result:

skb->nh.iph->ihl << 2
skb->nh.iph->ihl<<2
skb->nh.iph->ihl * 4
skb->nh.iph->ihl*4
(skb->nh.iph)->ihl * sizeof(u32)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:07 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo d56f90a7c9 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_network_header()
For the places where we need a pointer to the network header, it is still legal
to touch skb->nh.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:59 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1ced98e81d [SK_BUFF] ipv6: More skb_reset_network_header conversions related to skb_pull
Now related to this form:

skb->nh.ipv6h = (struct ipv6hdr *)skb_put(skb, length);

That, as the others, is done when skb->tail is still equal to skb->data, making
the conversion to skb_reset_network_header possible.

Also one more case equivalent to skb->nh.raw = skb->data, of this form:

iph = (struct ipv6hdr *)skb->data;
<SNIP>
skb->nh.ipv6h = iph;

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:54 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 98e399f82a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_mac_header()
For the places where we need a pointer to the mac header, it is still legal to
touch skb->mac.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

This one also converts some more cases to skb_reset_mac_header() that my
regex missed as it had no spaces before nor after '=', ugh.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:41 -07:00
Eric Dumazet b7aa0bf70c [NET]: convert network timestamps to ktime_t
We currently use a special structure (struct skb_timeval) and plain
'struct timeval' to store packet timestamps in sk_buffs and struct
sock.

This has some drawbacks :
- Fixed resolution of micro second.
- Waste of space on 64bit platforms where sizeof(struct timeval)=16

I suggest using ktime_t that is a nice abstraction of high resolution
time services, currently capable of nanosecond resolution.

As sizeof(ktime_t) is 8 bytes, using ktime_t in 'struct sock' permits
a 8 byte shrink of this structure on 64bit architectures. Some other
structures also benefit from this size reduction (struct ipq in
ipv4/ip_fragment.c, struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c, ...)

Once this ktime infrastructure adopted, we can more easily provide
nanosecond resolution on top of it. (ioctl SIOCGSTAMPNS and/or
SO_TIMESTAMPNS/SCM_TIMESTAMPNS)

Note : this patch includes a bug correction in
compat_sock_get_timestamp() where a "err = 0;" was missing (so this
syscall returned -ENOENT instead of 0)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
CC: John find <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:34 -07:00