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2007-07-10[NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute typePatrick McHardy
Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a backwards compatible way. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07[NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies constPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04[NETLINK]: Remove bogus BUG_ONPatrick McHardy
Remove bogus BUG_ON(mutex_is_locked(nlk_sk(sk)->cb_mutex)), when the netlink_kernel_create caller specifies an external mutex it might validly be locked. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03[NETLINK]: Fix use after free in netlink_recvmsgPatrick McHardy
When the user passes in MSG_TRUNC the skb is used after getting freed. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03[NETLINK]: Kill CB only when socket is unusedHerbert Xu
Since we can still receive packets until all references to the socket are gone, we don't need to kill the CB until that happens. This also aligns ourselves with the receive queue purging which happens at that point. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[NETLINK]: Possible cleanups.Adrian Bunk
- make the following needlessly global variables static: - core/rtnetlink.c: struct rtnl_msg_handlers[] - netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c: struct nf_ct_protos[] - make the following needlessly global functions static: - core/rtnetlink.c: rtnl_dump_all() - netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_queue_skip() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: don't reinitialize callback mutexPatrick McHardy
Don't reinitialize the callback mutex the netlink_kernel_create caller handed in, it is supposed to already be initialized and could already be held by someone. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override itPatrick McHardy
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[NETLINK]: introduce NLA_BINARY typeJohannes Berg
This patch introduces a new NLA_BINARY attribute policy type with the verification of simply checking the maximum length of the payload. It also fixes a small typo in the example. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Directly return -EINTR from netlink_dump_start()Thomas Graf
Now that all users of netlink_dump_start() use netlink_run_queue() to process the receive queue, it is possible to return -EINTR from netlink_dump_start() directly, therefore simplying the callers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handlerThomas Graf
The error pointer argument in netlink message handlers is used to signal the special case where processing has to be interrupted because a dump was started but no error happened. Instead it is simpler and more clear to return -EINTR and have netlink_run_queue() deal with getting the queue right. nfnetlink passed on this error pointer to its subsystem handlers but only uses it to signal the start of a netlink dump. Therefore it can be removed there as well. This patch also cleans up the error handling in the affected message handlers to be consistent since it had to be touched anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Ignore control messages directly in netlink_run_queue()Thomas Graf
Changes netlink_rcv_skb() to skip netlink controll messages and don't pass them on to the message handler. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Ignore !NLM_F_REQUEST messages directly in netlink_run_queue()Thomas Graf
netlink_rcv_skb() is changed to skip messages which don't have the NLM_F_REQUEST bit to avoid every netlink family having to perform this check on their own. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Remove unused groups variableThomas Graf
Leftover from dynamic multicast groups allocation work. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helperArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->end to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Now to convert the last one, skb->data, that will allow many simplifications and removal of some of the offset helpers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_transport_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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[TCP/DCCP/RANDOM]: Remove unused exports.Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the following not or no longer used exports: - drivers/char/random.c: secure_tcp_sequence_number - net/dccp/options.c: sysctl_dccp_feat_sequence_window - net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_set_err Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Mirror UDP MSG_TRUNC semantics.David S. Miller
If the user passes MSG_TRUNC in via msg_flags, return the full packet size not the truncated size. Idea from Herbert Xu and Thomas Graf. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-18[NETLINK]: Don't attach callback to a going-away netlink socketDenis Lunev
There is a race between netlink_dump_start() and netlink_release() that can lead to the situation when a netlink socket with non-zero callback is freed. Here it is: CPU1: CPU2 netlink_release(): netlink_dump_start(): sk = netlink_lookup(); /* OK */ netlink_remove(); spin_lock(&nlk->cb_lock); if (nlk->cb) { /* false */ ... } spin_unlock(&nlk->cb_lock); spin_lock(&nlk->cb_lock); if (nlk->cb) { /* false */ ... } nlk->cb = cb; spin_unlock(&nlk->cb_lock); ... sock_orphan(sk); /* * proceed with releasing * the socket */ The proposal it to make sock_orphan before detaching the callback in netlink_release() and to check for the sock to be SOCK_DEAD in netlink_dump_start() before setting a new callback. Signed-off-by: Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-12[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 8Arjan van de Ven
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-10[NET] NETLINK: Fix whitespace errors.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-03[AF_NETLINK]: module_put cleanupMariusz Kozlowski
This patch removes redundant argument check for module_put(). Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08[PATCH] struct path: convert netlinkJosef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06[GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.Jamal Hadi Salim
The command flags for dump and do were swapped.. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06[GENETLINK]: Move command capabilities to flags.Jamal Hadi Salim
This patch moves command capabilities to command flags. Other than being cleaner, saves several bytes. We increment the nlctrl version so as to signal to user space that to not expect the attributes. We will try to be careful not to do this too often ;-> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENETLINK]: Add cmd dump completion.Jamal Hadi Salim
Remove assumption that generic netlink commands cannot have dump completion callbacks. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NETLINK]: Remove unused dst_pid field in netlink_skb_parmsThomas Graf
The destination PID is passed directly to netlink_unicast() respectively netlink_multicast(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENETLINK] ctrl: Avoid empty CTRL_ATTR_OPS attribute when dumpingThomas Graf
Based on Jamal's patch but compiled and even tested. :-) Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headersThomas Graf
By modyfing genlmsg_put() to take a genl_family and by adding genlmsg_put_reply() the process of constructing the netlink and generic netlink headers is simplified. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requestsThomas Graf
A generic netlink user has no interest in knowing how to address the source of the original request. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possibleThomas Graf
Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new() instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly. Replaces error handling of message construction functions when constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies a bug in calculating the size of the skb. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-30[NET]: fix uaccess handlingHeiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl familiesThomas Graf
Additionaly exports the following information when providing the list of registered generic netlink families: - protocol version - header size - maximum number of attributes - list of available operations including - id - flags - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information: 0x0010 nlctrl version 1 hdrsize 0 maxattr 6 op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT] 0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1 hdrsize 0 maxattr 0 op unknown (0x02) [DOIT] op unknown (0x03) [DOIT] .... Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NETLINK]: Make use of NLA_STRING/NLA_NUL_STRING attribute validationThomas Graf
Converts existing NLA_STRING attributes to use the new validation features, saving a couple of temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validationThomas Graf
Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy. The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the string. Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NET]: Use BUILD_BUG_ON() for checking size of skb->cb.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interfaceThomas Graf
Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the multicast to avoid duplicated notifications. nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to allow notification in atomic contexts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NETLINK]: Convert core netlink handling to new netlink apiThomas Graf
Fixes a theoretical memory and locking leak when the size of the netlink header would exceed the skb tailroom. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interfaceThomas Graf
Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29[NETLINK]: Call panic if nl_table allocation failsAkinobu Mita
This patch makes crash happen if initialization of nl_table fails in initcalls. It is better than getting use after free crash later. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21[NET]: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.Panagiotis Issaris
Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-03[PATCH] bcm43xx: netlink deadlock fixArjan van de Ven
reported by Jure Repinc: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6773 > > checked out dmesg output and found the message > > > > ====================================================== > > [ BUG: hard-safe -> hard-unsafe lock order detected! ] > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > starting at line 660 of the dmesg.txt that I will attach. The patch below should fix the deadlock, albeit I suspect it's not the "right" fix; the right fix may well be to move the rx processing in bcm43xx to softirq context. [it's debatable, ipw2200 hit this exact same bug; at some point it's better to bite the bullet and move this to the common layer as my patch below does] Make the nl_table_lock irq-safe; it's taken for read in various netlink functions, including functions that several wireless drivers (ipw2200, bcm43xx) want to call from hardirq context. The deadlock was found by the lock validator. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-29[NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework.Darrel Goeddel
This patch encapsulates the usage of eff_cap (in netlink_skb_params) within the security framework by extending security_netlink_recv to include a required capability parameter and converting all direct usage of eff_caps outside of the lsm modules to use the interface. It also updates the SELinux implementation of the security_netlink_send and security_netlink_recv hooks to take advantage of the sid in the netlink_skb_params struct. This also enables SELinux to perform auditing of netlink capability checks. Please apply, for 2.6.18 if possible. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-01Merge branch 'audit.b10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] Audit Filter Performance [PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing [PATCH] More user space subject labels [PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages [PATCH] change lspp ipc auditing [PATCH] audit inode patch [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2 [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering [PATCH] no need to wank with task_lock() and pinning task down in audit_syscall_exit() [PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit} [PATCH] drop gfp_mask in audit_log_exit() [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit() [PATCH] sockaddr patch [PATCH] deal with deadlocks in audit_free()
2006-05-01[PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messagesSteve Grubb
The below patch should be applied after the inode and ipc sid patches. This patch is a reworking of Tim's patch that has been updated to match the inode and ipc patches since its similar. [updated: > Stephen Smalley also wanted to change a variable from isec to tsec in the > user sid patch. ] Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-29[NETLINK]: cleanup unused macro in net/netlink/af_netlink.cSoyoung Park
1 line removal, of unused macro. ran 'egrep -r' from linux-2.6.16/ for Nprintk and didn't see it anywhere else but here, in #define... Signed-off-by: Soyoung Park <speattle@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>