linux-stable.git/net/core/rtnetlink.c, branch v3.7

rtnetlink: Use nlmsg type RTM_NEWNEIGH from dflt fdb dump

2012-11-03T19:27:08+00:00

Change the dflt fdb dump handler to use RTM_NEWNEIGH to
be compatible with bridge dump routines.

The dump reply from the network driver handlers should
match the reply from bridge handler. The fact they were
not in the ixgbe case was effectively a bug. This patch
resolves it.

Applications that were not checking the nlmsg type will
continue to work. And now applications that do check
the type will work as expected.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: add attributes to fdb interface

2012-10-01T22:39:44+00:00

Later changes need to be able to refer to neighbour attributes
when doing fdb_add.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

2012-09-10T19:30:41+00:00

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" 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create

2012-09-08T22:46:30+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: kill netlink_set_nonroot

2012-09-08T22:45:27+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove delay at device dismantle

2012-08-23T04:50:36+00:00

I noticed extra one second delay in device dismantle, tracked down to
a call to dst_dev_event() while some call_rcu() are still in RCU queues.

These call_rcu() were posted by rt_free(struct rtable *rt) calls.

We then wait a little (but one second) in netdev_wait_allrefs() before
kicking again NETDEV_UNREGISTER.

As the call_rcu() are now completed, dst_dev_event() can do the needed
device swap on busy dst.

To solve this problem, add a new NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, called
after a rcu_barrier(), but outside of RTNL lock.

Use NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL with care !

Change dst_dev_event() handler to react to NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL

Also remove NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, as its not used anymore after
IP cache removal.

With help from Gao feng

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Gao feng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Allow to create links with given ifindex

2012-08-09T23:18:06+00:00

Currently the RTM_NEWLINK results in -EOPNOTSUPP if the ifinfomsg->ifi_index
is not zero. I propose to allow requesting ifindices on link creation. This
is required by the checkpoint-restore to correctly restore a net namespace
(i.e. -- a container).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

time: jiffies_delta_to_clock_t() helper to the rescue

2012-08-09T23:17:03+00:00

Various /proc/net files sometimes report crazy timer values, expressed
in clock_t units.

This happens when an expired timer delta (expires - jiffies) is passed
to jiffies_to_clock_t().

This function has an overflow in :

return div_u64((u64)x * TICK_NSEC, NSEC_PER_SEC / USER_HZ);

commit cbbc719fccdb8cb (time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type
to unsigned long) only got around the problem.

As we cant output negative values in /proc/net/tcp without breaking
various tools, I suggest adding a jiffies_delta_to_clock_t() wrapper
that caps the negative delta to a 0 value.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: hank 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

2012-08-01T02:07:42+00:00

Pull random subsystem patches from Ted Ts'o:
 "This patch series contains a major revamp of how we collect entropy
  from interrupts for /dev/random and /dev/urandom.

  The goal is to addresses weaknesses discussed in the paper "Mining
  your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices",
  by Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, J.  Alex Halderman,
  which will be published in the Proceedings of the 21st Usenix Security
  Symposium, August 2012.  (See https://factorable.net for more
  information and an extended version of the paper.)"

Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby changes in
drivers/{mfd/ab3100-core.c, usb/gadget/omap_udc.c}

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: (33 commits)
  random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf()
  dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver
  random: Add comment to random_initialize()
  random: final removal of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
  um: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  sparc/ldc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  [ARM] pxa: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  board-palmz71: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  isp1301_omap: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  pxa25x_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  omap_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  goku_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which was commented out
  uartlite: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  drivers: hv: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  xen-blkfront: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  n2_crypto: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  pda_power: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  i2c-pmcmsp: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  input/serio/hp_sdc.c: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  mfd: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op
  ...

ipv6: fix incorrect route 'expires' value passed to userspace

2012-07-30T06:18:31+00:00

When userspace use RTM_GETROUTE to dump route table, with an already
expired route entry, we always got an 'expires' value(2147157)
calculated base on INT_MAX.

The reason of this problem is in the following satement:
	rt->dst.expires - jiffies < INT_MAX
gcc promoted the type of both sides of '<' to unsigned long, thus
a small negative value would be considered greater than INT_MAX.

With the help of Eric Dumazet, do the out of bound checks in
rtnl_put_cacheinfo(), _after_ conversion to clock_t.

Signed-off-by: Li Wei 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller