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* rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocationGreg Rose2012-02-211-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK. The mask is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application. At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information about the VFs belonging to the interface. This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions. Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel. Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed in via the new netlink attribute filter mask. If no filter mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE. With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible in the future. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-251-2/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits) fs: Merge split strings treewide: fix potentially dangerous trailing ';' in #defined values/expressions uwb: Fix misspelling of neighbourhood in comment net, netfilter: Remove redundant goto in ebt_ulog_packet trivial: don't touch files that are removed in the staging tree lib/vsprintf: replace link to Draft by final RFC number doc: Kconfig: `to be' -> `be' doc: Kconfig: Typo: square -> squared doc: Konfig: Documentation/power/{pm => apm-acpi}.txt drivers/net: static should be at beginning of declaration drivers/media: static should be at beginning of declaration drivers/i2c: static should be at beginning of declaration XTENSA: static should be at beginning of declaration SH: static should be at beginning of declaration MIPS: static should be at beginning of declaration ARM: static should be at beginning of declaration rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_check Update my e-mail address PCIe ASPM: forcedly -> forcibly gma500: push through device driver tree ... Fix up trivial conflicts: - arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/dma-m2p.c (deleted) - drivers/gpio/gpio-ep93xx.c (renamed and context nearby) - drivers/net/r8169.c (just context changes)
| * rcu: treewide: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference_checkMichal Hocko2011-07-081-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since ca5ecddf (rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse) rcu_dereference_check use rcu_read_lock_held as a part of condition automatically so callers do not have to do that as well. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | net: dcbnl, add multicast group for DCBJohn Fastabend2011-06-211-0/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that dcbnl is being used in many cases by more than a single agent it is beneficial to be notified when some entity either driver or user space has changed the DCB attributes. Today applications either end up polling the interface or relying on a user space database to maintain the DCB state and post events. Polling is a poor solution for obvious reasons. And relying on a user space database has its own downside. Namely it has created strange boot dependencies requiring the database be populated before any applications dependent on DCB attributes starts or the application goes into a polling loop. Populating the database requires negotiating link setting with the peer and can take anywhere from less than a second up to a few seconds depending on the switch implementation. Perhaps more importantly if another application or an embedded agent sets a DCB link attribute the database has no way of knowing other than polling the kernel. This prevents applications from responding quickly to changes in link events which at least in the FCoE case and probably any other protocols expecting a lossless link may result in IO errors. By adding a multicast group for DCB we have clean way to disseminate kernel DCB link attributes up to user space. Avoiding the need for user space to maintain a coherant database and disperse events that potentially do not reflect the current link state. Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: rtnetlink.h -- only include linux/netdevice.h when used by the kernelAndy Whitcroft2010-11-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit below added a new helper dev_ingress_queue to cleanly obtain the ingress queue pointer. This necessitated including 'linux/netdevice.h': commit 24824a09e35402b8d58dcc5be803a5ad3937bdba Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Date: Sat Oct 2 06:11:55 2010 +0000 net: dynamic ingress_queue allocation However this include triggers issues for applications in userspace which use the rtnetlink interfaces. Commonly this requires they include 'net/if.h' and 'linux/rtnetlink.h' leading to a compiler error as below: In file included from /usr/include/linux/netdevice.h:28:0, from /usr/include/linux/rtnetlink.h:9, from t.c:2: /usr/include/linux/if.h:135:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifmap’ /usr/include/net/if.h:112:8: note: originally defined here /usr/include/linux/if.h:169:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifreq’ /usr/include/net/if.h:127:8: note: originally defined here /usr/include/linux/if.h:218:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct ifconf’ /usr/include/net/if.h:177:8: note: originally defined here The new helper is only defined for the kernel and protected by __KERNEL__ therefore we can simply pull the include down into the same protected section. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: relax rtnl_dereference()David S. Miller2010-10-051-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | rtnl_dereference() is used in contexts where RTNL is held, to fetch an RCU protected pointer. Updates to this pointer are prevented by RTNL, so we dont need smp_read_barrier_depends() and the ACCESS_ONCE() provided in rcu_dereference_check(). rtnl_dereference() is mainly a macro to document the locking invariant. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: dynamic ingress_queue allocationEric Dumazet2010-10-051-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | ingress being not used very much, and net_device->ingress_queue being quite a big object (128 or 256 bytes), use a dynamic allocation if needed (tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress ...) dev_ingress_queue(dev) helper should be used only with RTNL taken. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: add rtnl_dereference()Eric Dumazet2010-09-151-0/+9
| | | | | | | | We sometime want to dereference an rcu protected pointer while holding RTNL. Use a macro to hide all lockdep details. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: introduce rcu_dereference_rtnlEric Dumazet2010-09-081-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | We use rcu_dereference_check(p, rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_rtnl_is_held()) several times in network stack. More usages to come too, so its time to create a helper. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: RTA_MARK additionEric Dumazet2010-07-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new rt attribute, RTA_MARK, and use it in rt_fill_info()/inet_rtm_getroute() to support following commands : ip route get 192.168.20.110 mark NUMBER ip route get 192.168.20.108 from 192.168.20.110 iif eth1 mark NUMBER ip route list cache [192.168.20.110] mark NUMBER Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tablesPatrick McHardy2010-05-111-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for multiple independant multicast routing instances, named "tables". Userspace multicast routing daemons can bind to a specific table instance by issuing a setsockopt call using a new option MRT6_TABLE. The table number is stored in the raw socket data and affects all following ip6mr setsockopt(), getsockopt() and ioctl() calls. By default, a single table (RT6_TABLE_DFLT) is created with a default routing rule pointing to it. Newly created pim6reg devices have the table number appended ("pim6regX"), with the exception of devices created in the default table, which are named just "pim6reg" for compatibility reasons. Packets are directed to a specific table instance using routing rules, similar to how regular routing rules work. Currently iif, oif and mark are supported as keys, source and destination addresses could be supported additionally. Example usage: - bind pimd/xorp/... to a specific table: uint32_t table = 123; setsockopt(fd, SOL_IPV6, MRT6_TABLE, &table, sizeof(table)); - create routing rules directing packets to the new table: # ip -6 mrule add iif eth0 lookup 123 # ip -6 mrule add oif eth0 lookup 123 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* net: rtnetlink: decouple rtnetlink address families from real address familiesPatrick McHardy2010-04-261-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Decouple rtnetlink address families from real address families in socket.h to be able to add rtnetlink interfaces to code that is not a real address family without increasing AF_MAX/NPROTO. This will be used to add support for multicast route dumping from all tables as the proc interface can't be extended to support anything but the main table without breaking compatibility. This partialy undoes the patch to introduce independant families for routing rules and converts ipmr routing rules to a new rtnetlink family. Similar to that patch, values up to 127 are reserved for real address families, values above that may be used arbitrarily. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller2010-02-281-0/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
| * net: Add checking to rcu_dereference() primitivesPaul E. McKenney2010-02-251-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update rcu_dereference() primitives to use new lockdep-based checking. The rcu_dereference() in __in6_dev_get() may be protected either by rcu_read_lock() or RTNL, per Eric Dumazet. The rcu_dereference() in __sk_free() is protected by the fact that it is never reached if an update could change it. Check for this by using rcu_dereference_check() to verify that the struct sock's ->sk_wmem_alloc counter is zero. Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | net: Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive windowlaurent chavey2009-12-231-0/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add rtnetlink init_rcvwnd to set the TCP initial receive window size advertised by passive and active TCP connections. The current Linux TCP implementation limits the advertised TCP initial receive window to the one prescribed by slow start. For short lived TCP connections used for transaction type of traffic (i.e. http requests), bounding the advertised TCP initial receive window results in increased latency to complete the transaction. Support for setting initial congestion window is already supported using rtnetlink init_cwnd, but the feature is useless without the ability to set a larger TCP initial receive window. The rtnetlink init_rcvwnd allows increasing the TCP initial receive window, allowing TCP connection to advertise larger TCP receive window than the ones bounded by slow start. Signed-off-by: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tcp: Revert per-route SACK/DSACK/TIMESTAMP changes.David S. Miller2009-12-151-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It creates a regression, triggering badness for SYN_RECV sockets, for example: [19148.022102] Badness at net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:293 [19148.022570] NIP: c02a0914 LR: c02a0904 CTR: 00000000 [19148.023035] REGS: eeecbd30 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.32) [19148.023496] MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 24002442 XER: 00000000 [19148.024012] TASK = eee9a820[1756] 'privoxy' THREAD: eeeca000 This is likely caused by the change in the 'estab' parameter passed to tcp_parse_options() when invoked by the functions in net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c But even if that is fixed, the ->conn_request() changes made in this patch series is fundamentally wrong. They try to use the listening socket's 'dst' to probe the route settings. The listening socket doesn't even have a route, and you can't get the right route (the child request one) until much later after we setup all of the state, and it must be done by hand. This stuff really isn't ready, so the best thing to do is a full revert. This reverts the following commits: f55017a93f1a74d50244b1254b9a2bd7ac9bbf7d 022c3f7d82f0f1c68018696f2f027b87b9bb45c2 1aba721eba1d84a2defce45b950272cee1e6c72a cda42ebd67ee5fdf09d7057b5a4584d36fe8a335 345cda2fd695534be5a4494f1b59da9daed33663 dc343475ed062e13fc260acccaab91d7d80fd5b2 05eaade2782fb0c90d3034fd7a7d5a16266182bb 6a2a2d6bf8581216e08be15fcb563cfd6c430e1e Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: cleanup include/linuxEric Dumazet2009-11-041-38/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Allow disabling of DSACK TCP option per routeGilad Ben-Yossef2009-10-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | Add and use no DSCAK bit in the features field. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com> Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com> Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Allow to turn off TCP window scale opt per routeGilad Ben-Yossef2009-10-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add and use no window scale bit in the features field. Note that this is not the same as setting a window scale of 0 as would happen with window limit on route. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com> Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com> Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Allow disabling TCP timestamp options per routeGilad Ben-Yossef2009-10-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Implement querying and acting upon the no timestamp bit in the feature field. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com> Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com> Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Add the no SACK route option featureGilad Ben-Yossef2009-10-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Implement querying and acting upon the no sack bit in the features field. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com> Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com> Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* IPv6/addrconf: Fix minor addrlabel thinko Tushar Gohad2009-09-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Fix apparent thinko related to RTM_DELADDRLABEL, introduced by commit 2a8cc6c89039e0530a3335954253b76ed0f9339a ("[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Support RFC3484 configurable address selection policy table."). Signed-off-by: Tushar Gohad <tgohad@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* rtnetlink: add new value for DHCP added routesStephen Hemminger2009-03-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | To improve manageability, it would be good to be able to disambiguate routes added by administrator from those added by DHCP client. The only necessary kernel change is to add value to rtnetlink include file so iproute2 utility can use it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logicPablo Neira Ayuso2009-02-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the return value of nlmsg_notify() as follows: If NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR is set by any of the listeners and an error in the delivery happened, return the broadcast error; else if there are no listeners apart from the socket that requested a change with the echo flag, return the result of the unicast notification. Thus, with this patch, the unicast notification is handled in the same way of a broadcast listener that has set the NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR socket flag. This patch is useful in case that the caller of nlmsg_notify() wants to know the result of the delivery of a netlink notification (including the broadcast delivery) and take any action in case that the delivery failed. For example, ctnetlink can drop packets if the event delivery failed to provide reliable logging and state-synchronization at the cost of dropping packets. This patch also modifies the rtnetlink code to ignore the return value of rtnl_notify() in all callers. The function rtnl_notify() (before this patch) returned the error of the unicast notification which makes rtnl_set_sk_err() reports errors to all listeners. This is not of any help since the origin of the change (the socket that requested the echoing) notices the ENOBUFS error if the notification fails and should resync itself. 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>
* headers_check fix: linux/rtnetlink.hJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-01-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | fix the following 'make headers_check' warning: usr/include/linux/rtnetlink.h:328: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
* ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the kernel and ixgbe driverAlexander Duyck2008-11-201-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the ixgbe driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to the kernel. The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping (PG) - which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups to traffic based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow Control (PFC) - which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which works at granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link (IEEE 802.3x). Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Phonet: global definitionsRemi Denis-Courmont2008-09-221-0/+4
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: drop unused BUG_TRAP()Ilpo Järvinen2008-07-251-7/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net_sched: Add size table for qdiscsJussi Kivilinna2008-07-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Add size table functions for qdiscs and calculate packet size in qdisc_enqueue(). Based on patch by Patrick McHardy http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=115201979221729&w=2 Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Fix routing tables with id > 255 for legacy softwareKrzysztof Piotr Oledzki2008-06-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most legacy software do not like tables > 255 as rtm_table is u8 so tb_id is sent &0xff and it is possible to mismatch for example table 510 with table 254 (main). This patch introduces RT_TABLE_COMPAT=252 so the code uses it if tb_id > 255. It makes such old applications happy, new ones are still able to use RTA_TABLE to get a proper table id. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* route: Mark unused routing attributes as suchThomas Graf2008-06-031-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Also removes an unused policy entry for an attribute which is only used in kernel->user direction. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Fix bogus ASSERT_RTNL warningPatrick McHardy2008-04-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ASSERT_RTNL uses mutex_trylock to test whether the rtnl_mutex is held. This bogus warnings when running in atomic context, which f.e. happens when adding secondary unicast addresses through macvlan or vlan or when synchronizing multicast addresses from wireless devices. Mid-term we might want to consider moving all address updates to process context since the locking seems overly complicated, for now just fix the bogus warning by changing ASSERT_RTNL to use mutex_is_locked(). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET] rtnetlink.c: remove no longer used functionsAdrian Bunk2008-02-051-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the following no longer used functions: - rtattr_parse() - rtattr_strlcpy() - __rtattr_parse_nested_compat() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware (v3)Denis V. Lunev2008-01-281-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Support RFC3484 configurable address selection policy table.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2008-01-281-0/+7
| | | | | | | | Policy table is implemented as an RCU linear list since we do not expect large list nor frequent updates. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV6]: Add ifindex field to ND user option messages.Pierre Ynard2007-11-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Userland neighbor discovery options are typically heavily involved with the interface on which thay are received: add a missing ifindex field to the original struct. Thanks to Rémi Denis-Courmont. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPv6]: Export userland ND options through netlink (RDNSS support)Pierre Ynard2007-10-101-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As discussed before, this patch provides userland with a way to access relevant options in Router Advertisements, after they are processed and validated by the kernel. Extra options are processed in a generic way; this patch only exports RDNSS options described in RFC5006, but support to control which options are exported could be easily added. A new rtnetlink message type is defined, to transport Neighbor Discovery options, along with optional context information. At the moment only the address of the router sending an RDNSS option is included, but additional attributes may be later defined, if needed by new use cases. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TCP]: Allow minimum RTO to be configurable via routing metrics.David S. Miller2007-08-301-0/+2
| | | | | | | | Cell phone networks do link layer retransmissions and other things that cause unnecessary timeout retransmits. So allow the minimum RTO to be inflated per-route to deal with this. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Fix rtnetlink compat attribute patchPatrick McHardy2007-07-101-2/+6
| | | | | | | Sent the wrong patch previously. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Add nested compat attributePatrick McHardy2007-07-101-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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. The attribute looks like this: struct { [ compat contents ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = total size, .rta_type = type, } rta; struct old_structure struct; [ nested top-level attribute ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = nest size, .rta_type = type, } nest_attr; [ optional 0 .. n nested attributes ] struct rtattr { .rta_len = private attribute len, .rta_type = private attribute typ, } nested_attr; struct nested_data data; }; Since both userspace and kernel deal correctly with attributes that are larger than expected old versions will just parse the compat part and ignore the rest. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV4]: The scheduled removal of multipath cached routing support.David S. Miller2007-07-101-1/+1
| | | | | | With help from Chris Wedgwood. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNL]: Message handler registration interfaceThomas Graf2007-04-251-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new interface to register rtnetlink message handlers replacing the exported rtnl_links[] array which required many message handlers to be exported unnecessarly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-251-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [NETLINK]: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bitsThomas Graf2006-12-081-0/+2
| | | | | | | | Restore API compatibility due to bits moved from rtnetlink.h to separate headers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Add rtnl_put_cacheinfo() to unify some codeThomas Graf2006-12-021-0/+3
| | | | | | | | IPv4, IPv6, and DECNet all use struct rta_cacheinfo in a similiar way, therefore rtnl_put_cacheinfo() is added to reuse code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPv6] prefix: Convert RTM_NEWPREFIX notifications to use the new netlink apiThomas Graf2006-12-021-2/+0
| | | | | | | RTM_GETPREFIX is completely unused and is thus removed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: Move netlink interface bits to linux/if_link.h.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-09-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Moving netlink interface bits to linux/if.h is rather troublesome for applications including both linux/if.h (which was changed to be included from linux/rtnetlink.h automatically) and net/if.h. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Unexport rtnl socketThomas Graf2006-09-221-2/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Add rtnetlink notification interfaceThomas Graf2006-09-221-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds rtnl_notify() to send rtnetlink notification messages and rtnl_set_sk_err() to report notification errors as socket errors in order to indicate the need of a resync due to loss of events. nlmsg_report() is added to properly document the meaning of NLM_F_ECHO. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [RTNETLINK]: Use rtnl_unicast() for rtnetlink unicastsThomas Graf2006-09-221-0/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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