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2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Kill afinfo->nf_post_routingDavid S. Miller
After changeset: [NETFILTER]: Introduce NF_INET_ hook values It always evaluates to NF_INET_POST_ROUTING. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Add async resume support on inputHerbert Xu
This patch adds support for async resumptions on input. To do so, the transform would return -EINPROGRESS and subsequently invoke the function xfrm_input_resume to resume processing. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Remove nhoff from xfrm_inputHerbert Xu
The nhoff field isn't actually necessary in xfrm_input. For tunnel mode transforms we now throw away the output IP header so it makes no sense to fill in the nexthdr field. For transport mode we can now let the function transport_finish do the setting and it knows where the nexthdr field is. The only other thing that needs the nexthdr field to be set is the header extraction code. However, we can simply move the protocol extraction out of the generic header extraction. We want to minimise the amount of info we have to carry around between transforms as this simplifies the resumption process for async crypto. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Make x->lastused an unsigned longHerbert Xu
Currently x->lastused is u64 which means that it cannot be read/written atomically on all architectures. David Miller observed that the value stored in it is only an unsigned long which is always atomic. So based on his suggestion this patch changes the internal representation from u64 to unsigned long while the user-interface still refers to it as u64. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Move state lock into x->type->inputHerbert Xu
This patch releases the lock on the state before calling x->type->input. It also adds the lock to the spots where they're currently needed. Most of those places (all except mip6) are expected to disappear with async crypto. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Move integrity stat collection into xfrm_inputHerbert Xu
Similar to the moving out of the replay processing on the output, this patch moves the integrity stat collectin from x->type->input into xfrm_input. This would eventually allow transforms such as AH/ESP to be lockless. The error value EBADMSG (currently unused in the crypto layer) is used to indicate a failed integrity check. In future this error can be directly returned by the crypto layer once we switch to aead algorithms. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Store xfrm states in security path directlyHerbert Xu
As it is xfrm_input first collects a list of xfrm states on the stack before storing them in the packet's security path just before it returns. For async crypto, this construction presents an obstacle since we may need to leave the loop after each transform. In fact, it's much easier to just skip the stack completely and always store to the security path. This is proven by the fact that this patch actually shrinks the code. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Merge most of the input pathHerbert Xu
As part of the work on asynchronous cryptographic operations, we need to be able to resume from the spot where they occur. As such, it helps if we isolate them to one spot. This patch moves most of the remaining family-specific processing into the common input code. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Add async resume support on outputHerbert Xu
This patch adds support for async resumptions on output. To do so, the transform would return -EINPROGRESS and subsequently invoke the function xfrm_output_resume to resume processing. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Merge most of the output pathHerbert Xu
As part of the work on asynchrnous cryptographic operations, we need to be able to resume from the spot where they occur. As such, it helps if we isolate them to one spot. This patch moves most of the remaining family-specific processing into the common output code. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Separate inner/outer mode processing on inputHerbert Xu
With inter-family transforms the inner mode differs from the outer mode. Attempting to handle both sides from the same function means that it needs to handle both IPv4 and IPv6 which creates duplication and confusion. This patch separates the two parts on the input path so that each function deals with one family only. In particular, the functions xfrm4_extract_inut/xfrm6_extract_inut moves the pertinent fields from the IPv4/IPv6 IP headers into a neutral format stored in skb->cb. This is then used by the inner mode input functions to modify the inner IP header. In this way the input function no longer has to know about the outer address family. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Move x->outer_mode->output out of locked sectionHerbert Xu
RO mode is the only one that requires a locked output function. So it's easier to move the lock into that function rather than requiring everyone else to run under the lock. In particular, this allows us to move the size check into the output function without causing a potential dead-lock should the ICMP error somehow hit the same SA on transmission. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Merge common code into xfrm_bundle_createHerbert Xu
Half of the code in xfrm4_bundle_create and xfrm6_bundle_create are common. This patch extracts that logic and puts it into xfrm_bundle_create. The rest of it are then accessed through afinfo. As a result this fixes the problem with inter-family transforms where we treat every xfrm dst in the bundle as if it belongs to the top family. This patch also fixes a long-standing error-path bug where we may free the xfrm states twice. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Move flow construction into xfrm_dst_lookupHerbert Xu
This patch moves the flow construction from the callers of xfrm_dst_lookup into that function. It also changes xfrm_dst_lookup so that it takes an xfrm state as its argument instead of explicit addresses. This removes any address-specific logic from the callers of xfrm_dst_lookup which is needed to correctly support inter-family transforms. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[IPSEC]: Use dst->header_len when resizing on outputHerbert Xu
Currently we use x->props.header_len when resizing on output. However, if we're resizing at all we might as well go the whole hog and do it for the whole dst. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timerPavel Emelyanov
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function and timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code. The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter (98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-08[XFRM]: xfrm_algo_clone() allocates too much memoryEric Dumazet
alg_key_len is the length in bits of the key, not in bytes. Best way to fix this is to move alg_len() function from net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c to include/net/xfrm.h, and to use it in xfrm_algo_clone() alg_len() is renamed to xfrm_alg_len() because of its global exposition. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-04[XFRM]: Do not define km_migrate() if !CONFIG_XFRM_MIGRATEEric Dumazet
In include/net/xfrm.h we find : #ifdef CONFIG_XFRM_MIGRATE extern int km_migrate(struct xfrm_selector *sel, u8 dir, u8 type, struct xfrm_migrate *m, int num_bundles); ... #endif We can also guard the function body itself in net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c with same condition. (Problem spoted by sparse checker) make C=2 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.o ... net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:1765:5: warning: symbol 'km_migrate' was not declared. Should it be static? ... Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-20[XFRM]: Audit function arguments misorderedPaul Moore
In several places the arguments to the xfrm_audit_start() function are in the wrong order resulting in incorrect user information being reported. This patch corrects this by pacing the arguments in the correct order. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-14[XFRM]: Display the audited SPI value in host byte order.Paul Moore
Currently the IPsec protocol SPI values are written to the audit log in network byte order which is different from almost all other values which are recorded in host byte order. This patch corrects this inconsistency by writing the SPI values to the audit record in host byte order. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-11[IPSEC]: Fix potential dst leak in xfrm_lookupHerbert Xu
If we get an error during the actual policy lookup we don't free the original dst while the caller expects us to always free the original dst in case of error. This patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-30[IPSEC]: Fix uninitialised dst warning in __xfrm_lookupHerbert Xu
Andrew Morton reported that __xfrm_lookup generates this warning: net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c: In function '__xfrm_lookup': net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:1449: warning: 'dst' may be used uninitialized in this function This is because if policy->action is of an unexpected value then dst will not be initialised. Of course, in practice this should never happen since the input layer xfrm_user/af_key will filter out all illegal values. But the compiler doesn't know that of course. So this patch fixes this by taking the conservative approach and treat all unknown actions the same as a blocking action. Thanks to Andrew for finding this and providing an initial fix. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-27[XFRM]: Fix leak of expired xfrm_statesPatrick McHardy
The xfrm_timer calls __xfrm_state_delete, which drops the final reference manually without triggering destruction of the state. Change it to use xfrm_state_put to add the state to the gc list when we're dropping the last reference. The timer function may still continue to use the state safely since the final destruction does a del_timer_sync(). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-26[IPSEC]: Temporarily remove locks around copying of non-atomic fieldsHerbert Xu
The change 050f009e16f908932070313c1745d09dc69fd62b [IPSEC]: Lock state when copying non-atomic fields to user-space caused a regression. Ingo Molnar reports that it causes a potential dead-lock found by the lock validator as it tries to take x->lock within xfrm_state_lock while numerous other sites take the locks in opposite order. For 2.6.24, the best fix is to simply remove the added locks as that puts us back in the same state as we've been in for years. For later kernels a proper fix would be to reverse the locking order for every xfrm state user such that if x->lock is taken together with xfrm_state_lock then it is to be taken within it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-02cleanup asm/scatterlist.h includesAdrian Bunk
Not architecture specific code should not #include <asm/scatterlist.h>. This patch therefore either replaces them with #include <linux/scatterlist.h> or simply removes them if they were unused. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-26[IPSEC]: Fix scatterlist handling in skb_icv_walk().David S. Miller
Use sg_init_one() and sg_init_table() as needed. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-24SG: Change sg_set_page() to take length and offset argumentJens Axboe
Most drivers need to set length and offset as well, so may as well fold those three lines into one. Add sg_assign_page() for those two locations that only needed to set the page, where the offset/length is set outside of the function context. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-23net: fix xfrm build - missing scatterlist.h includeHeiko Carstens
net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c: In function 'skb_icv_walk': net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c:555: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_set_page' make[2]: *** [net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.o] Error 1 Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-22Update net/ to use sg helpersJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-17[IPSEC]: Rename mode to outer_mode and add inner_modeHerbert Xu
This patch adds a new field to xfrm states called inner_mode. The existing mode object is renamed to outer_mode. This is the first part of an attempt to fix inter-family transforms. As it is we always use the outer family when determining which mode to use. As a result we may end up shoving IPv4 packets into netfilter6 and vice versa. What we really want is to use the inner family for the first part of outbound processing and the outer family for the second part. For inbound processing we'd use the opposite pairing. I've also added a check to prevent silly combinations such as transport mode with inter-family transforms. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17[IPSEC]: Store afinfo pointer in xfrm_modeHerbert Xu
It is convenient to have a pointer from xfrm_state to address-specific functions such as the output function for a family. Currently the address-specific policy code calls out to the xfrm state code to get those pointers when we could get it in an easier way via the state itself. This patch adds an xfrm_state_afinfo to xfrm_mode (since they're address-specific) and changes the policy code to use it. I've also added an owner field to do reference counting on the module providing the afinfo even though it isn't strictly necessary today since IPv6 can't be unloaded yet. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17[IPSEC]: Add missing BEET checksHerbert Xu
Currently BEET mode does not reinject the packet back into the stack like tunnel mode does. Since BEET should behave just like tunnel mode this is incorrect. This patch fixes this by introducing a flags field to xfrm_mode that tells the IPsec code whether it should terminate and reinject the packet back into the stack. It then sets the flag for BEET and tunnel mode. I've also added a number of missing BEET checks elsewhere where we check whether a given mode is a tunnel or not. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17[IPSEC]: Move type and mode map into xfrm_state.cHerbert Xu
The type and mode maps are only used by SAs, not policies. So it makes sense to move them from xfrm_policy.c into xfrm_state.c. This also allows us to mark xfrm_get_type/xfrm_put_type/xfrm_get_mode/xfrm_put_mode as static. The only other change I've made in the move is to get rid of the casts on the request_module call for types. They're unnecessary because C will promote them to ints anyway. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17[IPSEC]: Fix length check in xfrm_parse_spiHerbert Xu
Currently xfrm_parse_spi requires there to be 16 bytes for AH and ESP. In contrived cases there may not actually be 16 bytes there since the respective header sizes are less than that (8 and 12 currently). This patch changes the test to use the actual header length instead of 16. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious. This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced asynchronious user -> kernel communication. The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the user. Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing may occur in the arbitrary process context. This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet processing right in the netlink_unicast. Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched. EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Move state lock into x->type->outputHerbert Xu
This patch releases the lock on the state before calling x->type->output. It also adds the lock to the spots where they're currently needed. Most of those places (all except mip6) are expected to disappear with async crypto. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Lock state when copying non-atomic fields to user-spaceHerbert Xu
This patch adds locking so that when we're copying non-atomic fields such as life-time or coaddr to user-space we don't get a partial result. For af_key I've changed every instance of pfkey_xfrm_state2msg apart from expiration notification to include the keys and life-times. This is in-line with XFRM behaviour. The actual cases affected are: * pfkey_getspi: No change as we don't have any keys to copy. * key_notify_sa: + ADD/UPD: This wouldn't work otherwise. + DEL: It can't hurt. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[XFRM] user: Move attribute copying code into copy_to_user_state_extraHerbert Xu
Here's a good example of code duplication leading to code rot. The notification patch did its own netlink message creation for xfrm states. It duplicated code that was already in dump_one_state. Guess what, the next time (and the time after) when someone updated dump_one_state the notification path got zilch. This patch moves that code from dump_one_state to copy_to_user_state_extra and uses it in xfrm_notify_sa too. Unfortunately whoever updates this still needs to update xfrm_sa_len since the notification path wants to know the exact size for allocation. At least I've added a comment saying so and if someone still forgest, we'll have a WARN_ON telling us so. I also changed the security size calculation to use xfrm_user_sec_ctx since that's what we actually put into the skb. However it makes no practical difference since it has the same size as xfrm_sec_ctx. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Move common code into xfrm_alloc_spiHerbert Xu
This patch moves some common code that conceptually belongs to the xfrm core from af_key/xfrm_user into xfrm_alloc_spi. In particular, the spin lock on the state is now taken inside xfrm_alloc_spi. Previously it also protected the construction of the response PF_KEY/XFRM messages to user-space. This is inconsistent as other identical constructions are not protected by the state lock. This is bad because they in fact should be protected but only in certain spots (so as not to hold the lock for too long which may cause packet drops). The SPI byte order conversion has also been moved. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Remove gratuitous km wake-up events on ACQUIREHerbert Xu
There is no point in waking people up when creating/updating larval states because they'll just go back to sleep again as larval states by definition cannot be found by xfrm_state_find. We should only wake them up when the larvals mature or die. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Store IPv6 nh pointer in mac_header on outputHerbert Xu
Current the x->mode->output functions store the IPv6 nh pointer in the skb network header. This is inconvenient because the network header then has to be fixed up before the packet can leave the IPsec stack. The mac header field is unused on output so we can use that to store this instead. This patch does that and removes the network header fix-up in xfrm_output. It also uses ipv6_hdr where appropriate in the x->type->output functions. There is also a minor clean-up in esp4 to make it use the same code as esp6 to help any subsequent effort to merge the two. Lastly it kills two redundant skb_set_* statements in BEET that were simply copied over from transport mode. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Remove bogus ref count in xfrm_secpath_rejectHerbert Xu
Constructs of the form xfrm_state_hold(x); foo(x); xfrm_state_put(x); tend to be broken because foo is either synchronous where this is totally unnecessary or if foo is asynchronous then the reference count is in the wrong spot. In the case of xfrm_secpath_reject, the function is synchronous and therefore we should just kill the reference count. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Move RO-specific output code into xfrm6_mode_ro.cHerbert Xu
The lastused update check in xfrm_output can be done just as well in the mode output function which is specific to RO. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Unexport xfrm_replay_notifyHerbert Xu
Now that the only callers of xfrm_replay_notify are in xfrm, we can remove the export. This patch also removes xfrm_aevent_doreplay since it's now called in just one spot. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Move output replay code into xfrm_outputHerbert Xu
The replay counter is one of only two remaining things in the output code that requires a lock on the xfrm state (the other being the crypto). This patch moves it into the generic xfrm_output so we can remove the lock from the transforms themselves. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Move xfrm_state_check into xfrm_output.cHerbert Xu
The functions xfrm_state_check and xfrm_state_check_space are only used by the output code in xfrm_output.c so we can move them over. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[IPSEC]: Move common output code to xfrm_outputHerbert Xu
Most of the code in xfrm4_output_one and xfrm6_output_one are identical so this patch moves them into a common xfrm_output function which will live in net/xfrm. In fact this would seem to fix a bug as on IPv4 we never reset the network header after a transform which may upset netfilter later on. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> 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[NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queueHerbert Xu
I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue. Changing it to return the value will allow the compiler to generate better code since the value won't have to be memory-backed. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>