linux.git/net/ipv4/devinet.c, branch v2.6.30

netlink: change nlmsg_notify() return value logic

2009-02-25T07:18:28+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add ARP notify option for devices

2009-02-01T09:04:33+00:00

This adds another inet device option to enable gratuitous ARP
when device is brought up or address change. This is handy for
clusters or virtualization.

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

net: clean up net/ipv4/devinet.c

2008-11-03T10:48:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD

2008-10-28T20:25:09+00:00

call_rcu() will unconditionally rewrite RCU head anyway.
Applies to 
	struct neigh_parms
	struct neigh_table
	struct net
	struct cipso_v4_doi
	struct in_ifaddr
	struct in_device
	rt->u.dst

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2008-10-17T15:58:52+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)
  ipv4: Add a missing rcu_assign_pointer() in routing cache.
  [netdrvr] ibmtr: PCMCIA IBMTR is ok on 64bit
  xen-netfront: Avoid unaligned accesses to IP header
  lmc: copy_*_user under spinlock
  [netdrvr] myri10ge, ixgbe: remove broken select INTEL_IOATDMA

net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)

2008-10-16T22:24:51+00:00

Some code here depends on CONFIG_KMOD to not try to load
protocol modules or similar, replace by CONFIG_MODULES
where more than just request_module depends on CONFIG_KMOD
and and also use try_then_request_module in ebtables.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sysctl: simplify ->strategy

2008-10-16T18:21:47+00:00

name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: David S. Miller  [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipv: Re-enable IP when MTU > 68

2008-09-03T00:28:58+00:00

Re-enable IP when the MTU gets back to a valid size. 

This patch just checks if the in_dev is NULL on a NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event
and if MTU is valid (bigger than 68), then re-enable in_dev. 

Also a function that checks valid MTU size was created.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON

2008-07-26T04:43:18+00:00

Removes legacy reinvent-the-wheel type thing. The generic
machinery integrates much better to automated debugging aids
such as kerneloops.org (and others), and is unambiguous due to
better naming. Non-intuively BUG_TRAP() is actually equal to
WARN_ON() rather than BUG_ON() though some might actually be
promoted to BUG_ON() but I left that to future.

I could make at least one BUILD_BUG_ON conversion.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netns: add namespace parameter to rt_cache_flush

2008-07-06T02:00:44+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller