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2008-12-10net: Make staticRoel Kluin
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>
2008-11-27decnet: remove private wrappers of endian helpersHarvey Harrison
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>
2008-10-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) ipv4: Add a missing rcu_assign_pointer() in routing cache. [netdrvr] ibmtr: PCMCIA IBMTR is ok on 64bit xen-netfront: Avoid unaligned accesses to IP header lmc: copy_*_user under spinlock [netdrvr] myri10ge, ixgbe: remove broken select INTEL_IOATDMA
2008-10-16net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)Johannes Berg
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>
2008-10-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (26 commits) decnet: Fix compiler warning in dn_dev.c IPV6: Fix default gateway criteria wrt. HIGH/LOW preference radv option net/802/fc.c: Fix compilation warnings netns: correct mib stats in ip6_route_me_harder() netns: fix net_generic array leak rt2x00: fix regression introduced by "mac80211: free up 2 bytes in skb->cb" rtl8187: Add USB ID for Belkin F5D7050 with RTL8187B chip p54usb: Device ID updates mac80211: fixme for kernel-doc ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace libertas : Remove unused variable warning for "old_channel" from cmd.c mac80211: Fix scan RX processing oops orinoco: fix unsafe locking in spectrum_cs_suspend orinoco: fix unsafe locking in orinoco_cs_resume cfg80211: fix debugfs error handling mac80211: fix debugfs netdev rename iwlwifi: fix ct kill configuration for 5350 mac80211: fix HT information element parsing p54: Fix compilation problem on PPC mac80211: fix debugfs lockup ...
2008-10-16sysctl: simplify ->strategyAlexey Dobriyan
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>
2008-10-15decnet: Fix compiler warning in dn_dev.cDavid S. Miller
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>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set() and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-01-28[DECNET]: Switch to using ctl_paths.Pavel Emelyanov
The decnet includes two places to patch. The first one is the net/decnet table itself, and it is patched just like other subsystems in the first patch in this series. The second place is a bit more complex - it is the net/decnet/conf/xxx entries,. similar to those in ipv4/devinet.c and ipv6/addrconf.c. This code is made similar to those in ipv[46]. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware (v3)Denis V. Lunev
After this patch none of the netlink callback support anything except the initial network namespace but the rtnetlink infrastructure now handles multiple network namespaces. Changes from v2: - IPv6 addrlabel processing Changes from v1: - no need for special rtnl_unlock handling - fixed IPv6 ndisc Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Modify all rtnetlink methods to only work in the initial namespace (v2)Denis V. Lunev
Before I can enable rtnetlink to work in all network namespaces I need to be certain that something won't break. So this patch deliberately disables all of the rtnletlink methods in everything except the initial network namespace. After the methods have been audited this extra check can be disabled. Changes from v1: - added IPv6 addrlabel protection Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-30[DECNET]: dn_nl_deladdr() almost always returns no errorPavel Emelyanov
As far as I see from the err variable initialization the dn_nl_deladdr() routine was designed to report errors like "EADDRNOTAVAIL" and probaby "ENODEV". But the code sets this err to 0 after the first nlmsg_parse and goes on, returning this 0 in any case. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-07[DECNET]: "addr" module param can't be __initdataAlexey Dobriyan
sysfs keeps references to module parameters via /sys/module/*/parameters, so marking them as __initdata can't work. Steps to reproduce: modprobe decnet cat /sys/module/decnet/parameters/addr BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f88cd410 printing eip: c043dfd1 *pdpt = 0000000000004001 *pde = 0000000004408067 *pte = 0000000000000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: decnet sunrpc af_packet ipv6 binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod sbs sbshc fan dock battery backlight ac power_supply parport loop rtc_cmos serio_raw rtc_core rtc_lib button amd_rng sr_mod cdrom shpchp pci_hotplug ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore Pid: 2099, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc1-b1d08ac064268d0ae2281e98bf5e82627e0f0c56-bloat #6) EIP: 0060:[<c043dfd1>] EFLAGS: 00210286 CPU: 1 EIP is at param_get_int+0x6/0x20 EAX: c5c87000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 000080d0 EDX: f88cd410 ESI: f8a108f8 EDI: c5c87000 EBP: 00000000 ESP: c5c97f00 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process cat (pid: 2099, ti=c5c97000 task=c641ee10 task.ti=c5c97000) Stack: 00000000 f8a108f8 c5c87000 c043db6b f8a108f1 00000124 c043de1a c043db2f f88cd410 ffffffff c5c87000 f8a16bc8 f8a16bc8 c043dd69 c043dd54 c5dd5078 c043dbc8 c5cc7580 c06ee64c c5d679f8 c04c431f c641f480 c641f484 00001000 Call Trace: [<c043db6b>] param_array_get+0x3c/0x62 [<c043de1a>] param_array_set+0x0/0xdf [<c043db2f>] param_array_get+0x0/0x62 [<c043dd69>] param_attr_show+0x15/0x2d [<c043dd54>] param_attr_show+0x0/0x2d [<c043dbc8>] module_attr_show+0x1a/0x1e [<c04c431f>] sysfs_read_file+0x7c/0xd9 [<c04c42a3>] sysfs_read_file+0x0/0xd9 [<c048d4b2>] vfs_read+0x88/0x134 [<c042090b>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x7d5 [<c048d920>] sys_read+0x41/0x67 [<c04080fa>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xc1 ======================= Code: 00 83 c4 0c c3 83 ec 0c 8b 52 10 8b 12 c7 44 24 04 27 dd 6c c0 89 04 24 89 54 24 08 e8 ea 01 0c 00 83 c4 0c c3 83 ec 0c 8b 52 10 <8b> 12 c7 44 24 04 58 8c 6a c0 89 04 24 89 54 24 08 e8 ca 01 0c EIP: [<c043dfd1>] param_get_int+0x6/0x20 SS:ESP 0068:c5c97f00 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the loopback device per network namespace.Eric W. Biederman
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[NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.Daniel Lezcano
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[NET]: all net/ cleanup with ARRAY_SIZEDenis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.Eric W. Biederman
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a network namespace variable, and then it picks up a few associated variables. The functions: dev_getbyhwaddr dev_getfirsthwbytype dev_get_by_flags dev_get_by_name __dev_get_by_name dev_get_by_index __dev_get_by_index dev_ioctl dev_ethtool dev_load wireless_process_ioctl were modified to take a network namespace argument, and deal with it. vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their hooks will receive a network namespace argument. So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces. For now the ifindex generator is left global. Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else we will have corner case problems with migration when we get that far. At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when you change namespaces, and the like. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespaceEric W. Biederman
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>
2007-09-11[DECNET]: Fix interface address listing regression.Patrick McHardy
Not all are listed, same as the IPV4 devinet bug. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const.Philippe De Muyter
Make all initialized struct seq_operations in net/ const Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NET]: dev_mcast: unexport dev_mc_uploadPatrick McHardy
dev_mc_add/dev_mc_delete take care of uploading the list when necessary and thats the only interface other code should use. Also remove two incorrect calls in DECnet. 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>
2007-05-03[NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)Pavel Emelianov
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using first_netdev()/next_netdev(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacksPatrick McHardy
Since we're now holding the rtnl during the entire dump operation, we can remove additional locking for rtnl protected data. This patch does that for all simple cases (dev_base_lock for dev_base walking, RCU protection for FIB rule dumping). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[DECNet]: Use rtnl registration interfaceThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_network_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common, open coded 'skb->nh.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->nh.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 case, next 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>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member for the sysctl tablesEric W. Biederman
It isn't needed anymore, all of the users are gone, and all of the ctl_table initializers have been converted to use explicit names of the fields they are initializing. [akpm@osdl.org: NTFS fix] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctlEric W. Biederman
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented. I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register duplicate sysctl entries. So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future enhancments harder. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> 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>
2007-02-12[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 7Arjan 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] DECNET: Fix whitespace errors.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08[NETLINK]: Don't BUG on undersized allocationsPatrick McHardy
Currently netlink users BUG when the allocated skb for an event notification is undersized. While this is certainly a kernel bug, its not critical and crashing the kernel is too drastic, especially when considering that these errors have appeared multiple times in the past and it BUGs even if no listeners are present. This patch replaces BUG by WARN_ON and changes the notification functions to inform potential listeners of undersized allocations using a unique error code (EMSGSIZE). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-25[DECNET]: Handle a failure in neigh_parms_alloc (take 2)Eric W. Biederman
While enhancing the neighbour code to handle multiple network namespaces I noticed that decnet is assuming neigh_parms_alloc will allways succeed, which is clearly wrong. So handle the failure. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[PATCH] sysctl: remove unused "context" paramAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-02[DECNET] address: Convert to new netlink interfaceThomas Graf
Extends the netlink interface to support the __le16 type and converts address addition, deletion and, dumping to use the new netlink interface. Fixes multiple occasions of possible illegal memory references due to not validated netlink attributes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[DECNET] address: Rename rtmsg_ifa() to dn_ifaddr_notify()Thomas Graf
The name rtmsg_ifa is heavly overused and confusing. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[DECNET] address: Calculate accurate message size for netlink notificationsThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[DECNET]: Use kmemdupArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Code diff stats: [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ codiff /tmp/decnet.ko.before /tmp/decnet.ko.after /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dn_dev_sysctl_register | -51 1 function changed, 51 bytes removed [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-09-22[DECNET]: Convert DECnet notifications to use rtnl_notify()Thomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[DECNET]: Covert rules to use generic codeSteven Whitehouse
This patch converts the DECnet rules code to use the generic rules system created by Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[IPv4]: Move interface address bits to linux/if_addr.hThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> 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>
2006-06-30Remove 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>
2006-03-29[DECNET]: Fix refcountPatrick Caulfield
From: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com> This patch fixes a bug in the reference counting for the default DECnet device. If the device is changed, then the new device had its refcount decremented rather than the old one! Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-20[DECnet]: Endian annotation and fixes for DECnet.Steven Whitehouse
The typedef for dn_address has been removed in favour of using __le16 or __u16 directly as appropriate. All the DECnet header files are updated accordingly. The byte ordering of dn_eth2dn() and dn_dn2eth() are both changed since just about all their callers wanted network order rather than host order, so the conversion is now done in the functions themselves. Several missed endianess conversions have been picked up during the conversion process. The nh_gw field in struct dn_fib_info has been changed from a 32 bit field to 16 bits as it ought to be. One or two cases of using htons rather than dn_htons in the routing code have been found and fixed. There are still a few warnings to fix, but this patch deals with the important cases. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-11[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)Randy Dunlap
net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-29[NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasksPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-18[NETLINK]: Correctly set NLM_F_MULTI without checking the pidJamal Hadi Salim
This patch rectifies some rtnetlink message builders that derive the flags from the pid. It is now explicit like the other cases which get it right. Also fixes half a dozen dumpers which did not set NLM_F_MULTI at all. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05[DECNET]: Fix build after C99 netlink initializer change.Rafael J. Wysocki
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03[RTNETLINK] Cleanup rtnetlink_link tablesThomas Graf
Converts remaining rtnetlink_link tables to use c99 designated initializers to make greping a little bit easier. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>