linux-stable.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v3.12

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2013-08-16T22:37:26+00:00

rtnetlink: remove an unneeded test

2013-08-15T08:29:02+00:00

We know that "dev" is a valid pointer at this point, so we can remove
the test and clean up a little.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: rtnl_bridge_getlink: Call nlmsg_find_attr() with ifinfomsg header

2013-08-14T02:09:29+00:00

Fix the iproute2 command `bridge vlan show`, after switching from
rtgenmsg to ifinfomsg.

Let's start with a little history:

Feb 20:   Vlad Yasevich got his VLAN-aware bridge patchset included in
          the 3.9 merge window.
          In the kernel commit 6cbdceeb, he added attribute support to
          bridge GETLINK requests sent with rtgenmsg.

Mar 6th:  Vlad got this iproute2 reference implementation of the bridge
          vlan netlink interface accepted (iproute2 9eff0e5c)

Apr 25th: iproute2 switched from using rtgenmsg to ifinfomsg (63338dca)
          http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/239602/
          http://marc.info/?t=136680900700007

Apr 28th: Linus released 3.9

Apr 30th: Stephen released iproute2 3.9.0

The `bridge vlan show` command haven't been working since the switch to
ifinfomsg, or in a released version of iproute2. Since the kernel side
only supports rtgenmsg, which iproute2 switched away from just prior to
the iproute2 3.9.0 release.

I haven't been able to find any documentation, about neither rtgenmsg
nor ifinfomsg, and in which situation to use which, but kernel commit
88c5b5ce seams to suggest that ifinfomsg should be used.

Fixing this in kernel will break compatibility, but I doubt that anybody
have been using it due to this bug in the user space reference
implementation, at least not without noticing this bug. That said the
functionality is still fully functional in 3.9, when reversing iproute2
commit 63338dca.

This could also be fixed in iproute2, but thats an ugly patch that would
reintroduce rtgenmsg in iproute2, and from searching in netdev it seams
like rtgenmsg usage is discouraged. I'm assuming that the only reason
that Vlad implemented the kernel side to use rtgenmsg, was because
iproute2 was using it at the time.

Signed-off-by: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen 
Reviewed-by: Vlad Yasevich 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: Fix inverted check in ndo_dflt_fdb_del()

2013-08-10T08:24:12+00:00

Fix inverted check when deleting an fdb entry.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnl: export physical port id via RT netlink

2013-07-31T00:31:24+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Narendra K 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rtnetlink: allow using zero MAC address in rtnl_fdb_{add,del}

2013-06-25T16:31:39+00:00

This is required for multiple default destinations management in VXLAN

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

net/core: Add VF link state control

2013-06-14T00:51:04+00:00

Add netlink directives and ndo entry to allow for controling
VF link, which can be in one of three states:

Auto - VF link state reflects the PF link state (default)

Up - VF link state is up, traffic from VF to VF works even if
the actual PF link is down

Down - VF link state is down, no traffic from/to this VF, can be of
use while configuring the VF

Signed-off-by: Rony Efraim 
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier

2013-05-28T20:11:01+00:00

So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 

v2->v3: fix typo on simeth
	shortened dev_getter
	shortened notifier_info struct name
v1->v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: fix address check in rtnl_fdb_del

2013-04-25T08:14:08+00:00

Commit 6681712d67eef14c4ce793561c3231659153a320
	vxlan: generalize forwarding tables

relaxed the address checks in rtnl_fdb_del() to use is_zero_ether_addr().
This allows users to add multicast addresses using the fdb API.  However,
the check in rtnl_fdb_del() still uses a more strict
is_valid_ether_addr() which rejects multicast addresses.  Thus it
is possible to add an fdb that can not be later removed.
Relax the check in rtnl_fdb_del() as well.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2013-04-23T00:32:51+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
	include/net/scm.h
	net/batman-adv/routing.c
	net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the
cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around.

The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN
interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next.

An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was
reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that
code.

Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all
calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first
argument.

Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO
rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several
of these merge resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller