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* netlink: implement memory mapped recvmsg()Patrick McHardy2013-04-191-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for mmap'ed recvmsg(). To allow the kernel to construct messages into the mapped area, a dataless skb is allocated and the data pointer is set to point into the ring frame. This means frames will be delivered to userspace in order of allocation instead of order of transmission. This usually doesn't matter since the order is either not determinable by userspace or message creation/transmission is serialized. The only case where this can have a visible difference is nfnetlink_queue. Userspace can't assume mmap'ed messages have ordered IDs anymore and needs to check this if using batched verdicts. For non-mapped sockets, nothing changes. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: add mmap'ed netlink helper functionsPatrick McHardy2013-04-191-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | Add helper functions for looking up mmap'ed frame headers, reading and writing their status, allocating skbs with mmap'ed data areas and a poll function. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: rename ssk to sk in struct netlink_skb_paramsPatrick McHardy2013-04-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Memory mapped netlink needs to store the receiving userspace socket when sending from the kernel to userspace. Rename 'ssk' to 'sk' to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells2012-10-131-151/+1
| | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* netlink: add reference of module in netlink_dump_startGao feng2012-10-071-4/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I get a panic when I use ss -a and rmmod inet_diag at the same time. It's because netlink_dump uses inet_diag_dump which belongs to module inet_diag. I search the codes and find many modules have the same problem. We need to add a reference to the module which the cb->dump belongs to. Thanks for all help from Stephen,Jan,Eric,Steffen and Pablo. Change From v3: change netlink_dump_start to inline,suggestion from Pablo and Eric. Change From v2: delete netlink_dump_done,and call module_put in netlink_dump and netlink_sock_destruct. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Rearrange netlink_kernel_cfg to save space on 64-bit.David S. Miller2012-09-231-1/+1
| | | | | | Suggested by Jan Engelhardt. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: use <linux/export.h> instead of <linux/module.h>Pablo Neira Ayuso2012-09-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Since (9f00d97 netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create), linux/netlink.h includes linux/module.h because of the use of THIS_MODULE. Use linux/export.h instead, as suggested by Stephen Rothwell, which is significantly smaller and defines THIS_MODULES. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman2012-09-101-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_createPablo Neira Ayuso2012-09-081-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch defines netlink_kernel_create as a wrapper function of __netlink_kernel_create to hide the struct module *me parameter (which seems to be THIS_MODULE in all existing netlink subsystems). Suggested by David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: kill netlink_set_nonrootPablo Neira Ayuso2012-09-081-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace netlink_set_nonroot by one new field `flags' in struct netlink_kernel_cfg that is passed to netlink_kernel_create. This patch also renames NL_NONROOT_* to NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_* since now the flags field in nl_table is generic (so we can add more flags if needed in the future). Also adjust all callers in the net-next tree to use these flags instead of netlink_set_nonroot. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* scm: Don't use struct ucred in NETLINK_CB and struct scm_cookie.Eric W. Biederman2012-09-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Passing uids and gids on NETLINK_CB from a process in one user namespace to a process in another user namespace can result in the wrong uid or gid being presented to userspace. Avoid that problem by passing kuids and kgids instead. - define struct scm_creds for use in scm_cookie and netlink_skb_parms that holds uid and gid information in kuid_t and kgid_t. - Modify scm_set_cred to fill out scm_creds by heand instead of using cred_to_ucred to fill out struct ucred. This conversion ensures userspace does not get incorrect uid or gid values to look at. - Modify scm_recv to convert from struct scm_creds to struct ucred before copying credential values to userspace. - Modify __scm_send to populate struct scm_creds on in the scm_cookie, instead of just copying struct ucred from userspace. - Modify netlink_sendmsg to copy scm_creds instead of struct ucred into the NETLINK_CB. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Make the sending netlink socket availabe in NETLINK_CBEric W. Biederman2012-08-141-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sending socket of an skb is already available by it's port id in the NETLINK_CB. If you want to know more like to examine the credentials on the sending socket you have to look up the sending socket by it's port id and all of the needed functions and data structures are static inside of af_netlink.c. So do the simple thing and pass the sending socket to the receivers in the NETLINK_CB. I intend to use this to get the user namespace of the sending socket in inet_diag so that I can report uids in the context of the process who opened the socket, the same way I report uids in the contect of the process who opens files. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* netlink: add nlk->netlink_bind hook for module auto-loadingPablo Neira Ayuso2012-06-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a hook in the binding path of netlink. This is used by ctnetlink to allow module autoloading for the case in which one user executes: conntrack -E So far, this resulted in nfnetlink loaded, but not nf_conntrack_netlink. I have received in the past many complains on this behaviour. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_createPablo Neira Ayuso2012-06-291-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the following structure: struct netlink_kernel_cfg { unsigned int groups; void (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb); struct mutex *cb_mutex; }; That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations for netlink kernel sockets. I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still left in the original interface. That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows easy extensibility of this interface in the future. This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Delete NLMSG_PUT and NLMSG_NEW.David S. Miller2012-06-261-8/+0
| | | | | | | No longer used and a poor interface as they were macros with embedded gotos. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netfilter: remove ip_queue supportPablo Neira Ayuso2012-05-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes ip_queue support which was marked as obsolete years ago. The nfnetlink_queue modules provides more advanced user-space packet queueing mechanism. This patch also removes capability code included in SELinux that refers to ip_queue. Otherwise, we break compilation. Several warning has been sent regarding this to the mailing list in the past month without anyone rising the hand to stop this with some strong argument. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
* netlink: allow to pass data pointer to netlink_dump_start() callbackPablo Neira Ayuso2012-02-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows you to pass a data pointer that can be accessed from the dump callback. Netfilter is going to use this patch to provide filtered dumps to user-space. This is specifically interesting in ctnetlink that may handle lots of conntrack entries. We can save precious cycles by skipping the conversion to TLV format of conntrack entries that are not interesting for user-space. More specifically, ctnetlink will include one operation to allow to filter the dumping of conntrack entries by ctmark values. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: add netlink_dump_control structure for netlink_dump_start()Pablo Neira Ayuso2012-02-261-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Davem considers that the argument list of this interface is getting out of control. This patch tries to address this issue following his proposal: struct netlink_dump_control c = { .dump = dump, .done = done, ... }; netlink_dump_start(..., &c); Suggested by David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.Denys Vlasenko2012-01-301-16/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | text data bss dec hex filename 8455963 532732 1810804 10799499 a4c98b vmlinux.o.before 8448899 532732 1810804 10792435 a4adf3 vmlinux.o This change also removes commented-out copy of __nlmsg_put which was last touched in 2005 with "Enable once all users have been converted" comment on top. Changes in v2: rediffed against net-next. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* inet_diag: Partly rename inet_ to sock_Pavel Emelyanov2011-12-061-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | The ultimate goal is to get the sock_diag module, that works in family+protocol terms. Currently this is suitable to do on the inet_diag basis, so rename parts of the code. It will be moved to sock_diag.c later. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge git://github.com/herbertx/cryptoLinus Torvalds2011-11-011-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://github.com/herbertx/crypto: (48 commits) crypto: user - Depend on NET instead of selecting it crypto: user - Add dependency on NET crypto: talitos - handle descriptor not found in error path crypto: user - Initialise match in crypto_alg_match crypto: testmgr - add twofish tests crypto: testmgr - add blowfish test-vectors crypto: Make hifn_795x build depend on !ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT crypto: twofish-x86_64-3way - fix ctr blocksize to 1 crypto: blowfish-x86_64 - fix ctr blocksize to 1 crypto: whirlpool - count rounds from 0 crypto: Add userspace report for compress type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for cipher type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for rng type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for pcompress type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for nivaead type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for aead type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for givcipher type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for ablkcipher type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for blkcipher type algorithms crypto: Add userspace report for ahash type algorithms ...
| * crypto: Add userspace configuration APISteffen Klassert2011-10-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a basic userspace configuration API for the crypto layer. With this it is possible to instantiate, remove and to show crypto algorithms from userspace. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* | headers, net: Use __kernel_sa_family_t in more definitions shared with userlandBen Hutchings2011-08-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Complete the work started with commit 6602a4baf4d1a73cc4685a39ef859e1c5ddf654c ('net: Make userland include of netlink.h more sane'). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | net: Make userland include of netlink.h more sane.David S. Miller2011-08-071-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently userland will barf when including linux/netlink.h unless it precisely includes sys/socket.h first. The issue is where the definition of "sa_family_t" comes from. We've been back and forth on how to fix this issue in the past, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/622621 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/143380 Ben Hutchings suggested we take a hint from how we handle the sockaddr_storage type. First we define a "__kernel_sa_family_t" to linux/socket.h that is always defined. Then if __KERNEL__ is defined, we also define "sa_family_t" as equal to "__kernel_sa_family_t". Then in places like linux/netlink.h we use __kernel_sa_family_t in user visible datastructures. Reported-by: Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville2011-06-241-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c include/linux/netlink.h
| * netlink: advertise incomplete dumpsJohannes Berg2011-06-221-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Consider the following situation: * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first round, and four in the second * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are removed * now the second round will not show any entry, and even if there is a sequence/generation counter the application will not know To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE message that terminates the dump, and as such above situation can be detected. To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs to use this new functionality. The correct way to do that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for each new message. The core code will also call this function for the final MSG_DONE message. To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header from the genetlink user header. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* | rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump sizeGreg Rose2011-06-091-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to a single page. This is not enough for additional interface info available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately 40 VFs were created per interface. Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate enough data to satisfy the request. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* | RDMA: Add netlink infrastructureRoland Dreier2011-05-201-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Add basic RDMA netlink infrastructure that allows for registration of RDMA clients for which data is to be exported and supplies message construction callbacks. Signed-off-by: Nir Muchtar <nirm@voltaire.com> [ Reorganize a few things, add CONFIG_NET dependency. - Roland ] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
* netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parmsPatrick McHardy2011-03-031-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days, capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from the current process. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> [chrisw: update to include pohmelfs and uvesafb] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: kill loginuid/sessionid/sid members from struct netlink_skb_parmsPatrick McHardy2011-03-031-3/+0
| | | | | | | | Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days, the session information can be collected when needed. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: fix gcc -Wconversion compilation warningDmitry V. Levin2010-12-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | $ cat << EOF | gcc -Wconversion -xc -S -o/dev/null - unsigned f(void) {return NLMSG_HDRLEN;} EOF <stdin>: In function 'f': <stdin>:3:26: warning: negative integer implicitly converted to unsigned type Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Move "struct net" declaration inside the __KERNEL__ macro guardOllie Wild2010-09-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch reduces namespace pollution by moving the "struct net" declaration out of the userspace-facing portion of linux/netlink.h. It has no impact on the kernel. (This came up because we have several C++ applications which use "net" as a namespace name.) Signed-off-by: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Implment netlink_broadcast_filteredEric W. Biederman2010-05-211-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When netlink sockets are used to convey data that is in a namespace we need a way to select a subset of the listening sockets to deliver the packet to. For the network namespace we have been doing this by only transmitting packets in the correct network namespace. For data belonging to other namespaces netlink_bradcast_filtered provides a mechanism that allows us to examine the destination socket and to decide if we should transmit the specified packet to it. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* netlink: fix NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS in netlink_set_err()Pablo Neira Ayuso2010-03-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, ENOBUFS errors are reported to the socket via netlink_set_err() even if NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS is set. However, that should not happen. This fixes this problem and it changes the prototype of netlink_set_err() to return the number of sockets that have set the NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS socket option. This return value is used in the next patch in these bugfix series. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: cleanup include/linuxEric Dumazet2009-11-041-16/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This cleanup patch puts struct/union/enum opening braces, in first line to ease grep games. struct something { becomes : struct something { Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)Johannes Berg2009-09-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Similar to commit d136f1bd366fdb7e747ca7e0218171e7a00a98a5, there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family, which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod 2 locks held by rmmod/1510: #0: (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130 #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120 Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150 [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100 [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60 [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120 [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130 [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211] Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock before doing rcu_read_lock(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table lockingJohannes Berg2009-09-141-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since my commits introducing netns awareness into genetlink we can get this problem: BUG: scheduling while atomic: modprobe/1178/0x00000002 2 locks held by modprobe/1178: #0: (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8135ee1a>] genl_register_mc_grou #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8135eeb5>] genl_register_mc_g Pid: 1178, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-wl-34789-g95cb731-dirty # Call Trace: [<ffffffff8103e285>] __schedule_bug+0x85/0x90 [<ffffffff81403138>] schedule+0x108/0x588 [<ffffffff8135b131>] netlink_table_grab+0xa1/0xf0 [<ffffffff8135c3a7>] netlink_change_ngroups+0x47/0x100 [<ffffffff8135ef0f>] genl_register_mc_group+0x12f/0x290 because I overlooked that netlink_table_grab() will schedule, thinking it was just the rwlock. However, in the contention case, that isn't actually true. Fix this by letting the code grab the netlink table lock first and then the RCU for netns protection. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: constify nlmsghdr argumentsPatrick McHardy2009-08-251-7/+8
| | | | | | | | Consitfy nlmsghdr arguments to a couple of functions as preparation for the next patch, which will constify the netlink message data in all nfnetlink users. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* netlink: add NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flagPablo Neira Ayuso2009-03-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS socket flag. This flag can be used by unicast and broadcast listeners to avoid receiving ENOBUFS errors. Generally speaking, ENOBUFS errors are useful to notify two things to the listener: a) You may increase the receiver buffer size via setsockopt(). b) You have lost messages, you may be out of sync. In some cases, ignoring ENOBUFS errors can be useful. For example: a) nfnetlink_queue: this subsystem does not have any sort of resync method and you can decide to ignore ENOBUFS once you have set a given buffer size. b) ctnetlink: you can use this together with the socket flag NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR to stop getting ENOBUFS errors as you do not need to resync (packets whose event are not delivered are drop to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization). Moreover, the use of NETLINK_NO_ENOBUFS also reduces a "go up, go down" effect in terms of performance which is due to the netlink congestion control when the listener cannot back off. The effect is the following: 1) throughput rate goes up and netlink messages are inserted in the receiver buffer. 2) Then, netlink buffer fills and overruns (set on nlk->state bit 0). 3) While the listener empties the receiver buffer, netlink keeps dropping messages. Thus, throughput goes dramatically down. 4) Then, once the listener has emptied the buffer (nlk->state bit 0 is set off), goto step 1. This effect is easy to trigger with netlink broadcast under heavy load, and it is more noticeable when using a big receiver buffer. You can find some results in [1] that show this problem. [1] http://1984.lsi.us.es/linux/netlink/ This patch also includes the use of sk_drop to account the number of netlink messages drop due to overrun. This value is shown in /proc/net/netlink. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: add NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket optionPablo Neira Ayuso2009-02-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR which is a netlink socket option that the listener can set to make netlink_broadcast() return errors in the delivery to the caller. This option is useful if the caller of netlink_broadcast() do something with the result of the message delivery, like in ctnetlink where it drops a network packet if the event delivery failed, this is used to enable reliable logging and state-synchronization. If this socket option is not set, netlink_broadcast() only reports ESRCH errors and silently ignore ENOBUFS errors, which is what most netlink_broadcast() callers should do. This socket option is based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy. Patrick McHardy can exchange this patch for a beer from me ;). Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: avoid memset of 0 bytes sparse warningPatrick McHardy2008-11-201-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | A netlink attribute padding of zero triggers this sparse warning: include/linux/netlink.h:245:8: warning: memset with byte count of 0 Avoid the memset when the size parameter is constant and requires no padding. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Remove nonblock parameter from netlink_attachskbDenis V. Lunev2008-06-051-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messagesEric Paris2008-04-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Previously I added sessionid output to all audit messages where it was available but we still didn't know the sessionid of the sender of netlink messages. This patch adds that information to netlink messages so we can audit who sent netlink messages. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [IPV4] fib_trie: rescan if key is lost during dumpStephen Hemminger2008-01-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Normally during a dump the key of the last dumped entry is used for continuation, but since lock is dropped it might be lost. In that case fallback to the old counter based N^2 behaviour. This means the dump will end up skipping some routes which matches what FIB_HASH does. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.Denis V. Lunev2008-01-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal inside a namespace. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Mark attribute construction exception unlikelyPatrick McHardy2008-01-281-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeoutsPatrick McHardy2007-11-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ed6dcf4a in the history.git tree broke netlink_unicast timeouts by moving the schedule_timeout() call to a new function that doesn't propagate the remaining timeout back to the caller. This means on each retry we start with the full timeout again. ipc/mqueue.c seems to actually want to wait indefinitely so this behaviour is retained. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev2007-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskbDenis V. Lunev2007-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | netlink_sendskb does not use third argument. Clean it and save a couple of bytes. 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>
* [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attributeThomas Graf2007-10-101-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced. The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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