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Nicolas Dichtel
b46f6ded90 libnl: nla_put_be64(): align on a 64-bit area
nla_data() is now aligned on a 64-bit area.

A temporary version (nla_put_be64_32bit()) is added for nla_put_net64().
This function is removed in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23 20:13:24 -04:00
Nicolas Dichtel
e7479122be libnl: nla_put_le64(): align on a 64-bit area
nla_data() is now aligned on a 64-bit area.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23 20:13:24 -04:00
Nicolas Dichtel
089bf1a6a9 libnl: add more helpers to align attributes on 64-bit
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-21 14:22:12 -04:00
David S. Miller
e6f268ef36 net: nla_align_64bit() needs to test the right pointer.
Netlink messages are appended, one object at a time, to the end of
the SKB.  Therefore we need to test skb_tail_pointer() not skb->data
for alignment.

Fixes: 35c5845957 ("net: Add helpers for 64-bit aligning netlink attributes.")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-20 15:32:54 -04:00
Eric Dumazet
cca1d81574 net: fix HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS typos
HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS needs CONFIG_ prefix.

Also add a comment in nla_align_64bit() explaining we have
to add a padding if current skb->data is aligned, as it
certainly can be confusing.

Fixes: 35c5845957 ("net: Add helpers for 64-bit aligning netlink attributes.")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-20 10:53:22 -04:00
David S. Miller
35c5845957 net: Add helpers for 64-bit aligning netlink attributes.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-19 19:49:29 -04:00
Alexander Aring
c648a0138b netlink: add nla_get for le32 and le64
This patch adds missing inline wrappers for nla_get_le32 and
nla_get_le64. The 802.15.4 MAC byteorder is little endian and we keep
the byteorder for fields like address configuration in the same
byteorder as it comes from the MAC layer.

To provide these fields for nl802154 userspace applications, we need
these inline wrappers for netlink.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2015-09-30 13:16:44 +02:00
Jiri Benc
67b61f6c13 netlink: implement nla_get_in_addr and nla_get_in6_addr
Those are counterparts to nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-31 13:58:35 -04:00
Jiri Benc
930345ea63 netlink: implement nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr
IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions
to do that.

For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is
not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is
used to store IPv4 address.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-31 13:58:35 -04:00
Johannes Berg
053c095a82 netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void
Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
Thomas Graf
149118d893 netlink: Warn on unordered or illegal nla_nest_cancel() or nlmsg_cancel()
Calling nla_nest_cancel() in a different order as the nesting was
built up can lead to negative offsets being calculated which
results in skb_trim() being called with an underflowed unsigned
int. Warn if mark < skb->data as it's definitely a bug.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-05 22:38:22 -05:00
Simon Horman
941d8ebcf7 datapath: Rename last_action() as nla_is_last() and move to netlink.h
The original motivation for this change was to allow the helper to be used
in files other than actions.c as part of work on an odp select group
action.

It was as pointed out by Thomas Graf that this helper would be best off
living in netlink.h. Furthermore, I think that the generic nature of this
helper means it is best off in netlink.h regardless of if it is used more
than one .c file or not. Thus, I would like it considered independent of
the work on an odp select group action.

Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Cc: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-28 17:07:29 -04:00
Nicolas Dichtel
2c6ba4b15b netlink: fix description of portid
Avoid confusion between pid and portid.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-16 14:52:35 -04:00
Mark Rustad
d87de1f3e9 netlink: Fix shadow warning on jiffies
Change formal parameter name to not shadow the global jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-28 17:20:43 -07:00
Joe Perches
4f69053b72 netevent/netlink.h: Remove extern from function prototypes
There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
in the kernel sources.  Standardize on not using extern for
function prototypes.

Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
extern is assumed by the compiler.  Its use is as unnecessary as
using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-21 14:01:39 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
15e473046c netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
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>
2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
Jiri Pirko
4778e0be16 netlink: add signed types
Signed types might be needed in NL communication from time to time
(I need s32 in team driver), so add them.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-03 20:40:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
b3fe91c53a netlink: Delete all NLA_PUT*() macros.
They were error prone due to an embedded goto, and the entire tree has
been converted away from using them.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-02 04:33:45 -04:00
David S. Miller
24c410dce3 netlink: Add nla_put_le{16,32,64}() helpers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-02 04:33:42 -04:00
David S. Miller
6c1dd3b6a3 netlink: Add nla_put_net{16,32,64}() helpers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-02 04:33:41 -04:00
David S. Miller
569a8fc383 netlink: Add nla_put_be{16,32,64}() helpers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-01 18:11:37 -04:00
Denys Vlasenko
a46621a3a8 net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.
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>
2012-01-30 15:22:06 -05:00
Johannes Berg
4b6cc7284d netlink: clarify attribute length check documentation
The documentation for how the length of attributes
is checked is wrong ("Exact length" isn't true, the
policy checks are for "minimum length") and a bit
misleading. Make it more complete and explain what
really happens.

Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-04 17:48:23 -04:00
Johannes Berg
670dc2833d netlink: advertise incomplete dumps
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>
2011-06-22 16:09:45 -04:00
Justin P. Mattock
70f23fd66b treewide: fix a few typos in comments
- kenrel -> kernel
- whetehr -> whether
- ttt -> tt
- sss -> ss

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-10 10:16:21 +02:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik
f703651ef8 netfilter: NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macros
The patch adds the NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macros to the
vanilla kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-02-01 15:20:14 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
3654654f7a netlink: let nlmsg and nla functions take pointer-to-const args
The changed functions do not modify the NL messages and/or attributes
at all. They should use const (similar to strchr), so that callers
which have a const nlmsg/nlattr around can make use of them without
casting.

While at it, constify a data array.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-16 09:52:32 -08:00
Nelson Elhage
6b8c92ba07 netlink: Make nlmsg_find_attr take a const nlmsghdr*.
This will let us use it on a nlmsghdr stored inside a netlink_callback.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-04 12:26:34 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock
1dc8d8c06d net: Fix a typo in netlink.h
Fix a typo in include/net/netlink.h
should be finalize instead of finanlize

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-23 12:58:40 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
f5d410f2ea netlink: fix unaligned access in nla_get_be64()
This patch fixes a unaligned access in nla_get_be64() that was
introduced by myself in a17c859849.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-19 22:47:23 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b54452b07a const: struct nla_policy
Make remaining netlink policies as const.
Fixup coding style where needed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 14:30:18 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
3a6c2b419b netlink: constify nlmsghdr arguments
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>
2009-08-25 16:07:40 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
a17c859849 netfilter: conntrack: add support for DCCP handshake sequence to ctnetlink
This patch adds CTA_PROTOINFO_DCCP_HANDSHAKE_SEQ that exposes
the u64 handshake sequence number to user-space.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-05-27 17:50:35 +02:00
Holger Eitzenberger
e487eb99cf netlink: add nla_policy_len()
It calculates the max. length of a Netlink policy, which is usefull
for allocating Netlink buffers roughly the size of the actual
message.

Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-25 18:26:30 +01:00
Vegard Nossum
619e803d3c netlink: fix (theoretical) overrun in message iteration
See commit 1045b03e07 ("netlink: fix
overrun in attribute iteration") for a detailed explanation of why
this patch is necessary.

In short, nlmsg_next() can make "remaining" go negative, and the
remaining >= sizeof(...) comparison will promote "remaining" to an
unsigned type, which means that the expression will evaluate to
true for negative numbers, even though it was not intended.

I put "theoretical" in the title because I have no evidence that
this can actually happen, but I suspect that a crafted netlink
packet can trigger some badness.

Note that the last test, which seemingly has the exact same
problem (also true for nla_ok()), is perfectly OK, since we
already know that remaining is positive.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-25 17:21:17 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
b057efd4d2 netlink: constify struct nlattr * arg to parsing functions
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-28 11:59:11 -07:00
David S. Miller
b262e60309 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c
	drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
	net/core/dev.c
2008-10-01 06:12:56 -07:00
Vegard Nossum
1045b03e07 netlink: fix overrun in attribute iteration
kmemcheck reported this:

  kmemcheck: Caught 16-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6c1ba30)
  0500110001508abf050010000500000002017300140000006f72672e66726565
   i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u
                                   ^

  Pid: 3462, comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted (2.6.27-rc3-00054-g6397ab9-dirty #13)
  EIP: 0060:[<c05de64a>] EFLAGS: 00010296 CPU: 0
  EIP is at nla_parse+0x5a/0xf0
  EAX: 00000008 EBX: fffffffd ECX: c06f16c0 EDX: 00000005
  ESI: 00000010 EDI: f6c1ba30 EBP: f6367c6c ESP: c0a11e88
   DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
  CR0: 8005003b CR2: f781cc84 CR3: 3632f000 CR4: 000006d0
  DR0: c0ead9bc DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
  DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
   [<c05d4b23>] rtnl_setlink+0x63/0x130
   [<c05d5f75>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x165/0x200
   [<c05ddf66>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x76/0xa0
   [<c05d5dfe>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1e/0x30
   [<c05dda21>] netlink_unicast+0x281/0x290
   [<c05ddbe9>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1b9/0x2b0
   [<c05beef2>] sock_sendmsg+0xd2/0x100
   [<c05bf945>] sys_sendto+0xa5/0xd0
   [<c05bf9a6>] sys_send+0x36/0x40
   [<c05c03d6>] sys_socketcall+0x1e6/0x2c0
   [<c020353b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3f
   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

This is the line in nla_ok():

  /**
   * nla_ok - check if the netlink attribute fits into the remaining bytes
   * @nla: netlink attribute
   * @remaining: number of bytes remaining in attribute stream
   */
  static inline int nla_ok(const struct nlattr *nla, int remaining)
  {
          return remaining >= sizeof(*nla) &&
                 nla->nla_len >= sizeof(*nla) &&
                 nla->nla_len <= remaining;
  }

It turns out that remaining can become negative due to alignment in
nla_next(). But GCC promotes "remaining" to unsigned in the test
against sizeof(*nla) above. Therefore the test succeeds, and the
nla_for_each_attr() may access memory outside the received buffer.

A short example illustrating this point is here:

  #include <stdio.h>

  main(void)
  {
          printf("%d\n", -1 >= sizeof(int));
  }

...which prints "1".

This patch adds a cast in front of the sizeof so that GCC will make
a signed comparison and fix the illegal memory dereference. With the
patch applied, there is no kmemcheck report.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 19:05:29 -07:00
Thomas Graf
2c10b32bf5 netlink: Remove compat API for nested attributes
Removes all _nested_compat() functions from the API. The prio qdisc
no longer requires them and netem has its own format anyway. Their
existance is only confusing.

Resend: Also remove the wrapper macro.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-02 17:30:27 -07:00
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki
07a7c1070e netlink: add NLA_PUT_BE64 macro
Add NLA_PUT_BE64 macro required for 64bit counters in netfilter

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-21 10:10:58 -07:00
Thomas Graf
bc3ed28caa netlink: Improve returned error codes
Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and
nla_nest_cancel() void functions.

Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not
big enough.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03 16:36:54 -07:00
Thomas Graf
b9a2f2e450 netlink: Fix nla_parse_nested_compat() to call nla_parse() directly
The purpose of nla_parse_nested_compat() is to parse attributes which
contain a struct followed by a stream of nested attributes.  So far,
it called nla_parse_nested() to parse the stream of nested attributes
which was wrong, as nla_parse_nested() expects a container attribute
as data which holds the attribute stream.  It needs to call
nla_parse() directly while pointing at the next possible alignment
point after the struct in the beginning of the attribute.

With this patch, I can no longer reproduce the reported leftover
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-22 10:48:59 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
01480e1cf5 [NETLINK]: Add nla_append()
Used to append data to a message without a header or padding.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:09 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev
4d1169c1e7 [NETNS]: Add netns to nl_info structure.
nl_info is used to track the end-user destination of routing change
notification. This is a natural object to hold a namespace on. Place
it there and utilize the context in the appropriate places.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:29 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
838965ba22 [NETLINK]: Add NLA_PUT_BE16/nla_get_be16()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:53 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
f4d900a2ca [NETLINK]: Mark attribute construction exception unlikely
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:34 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev
cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
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>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
Pierre Ynard
d1ec3b7722 [NETLINK]: Fix typos in comments in netlink.h
This patch fixes a few typos in comments in include/net/netlink.h

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:09:48 -07:00
Herbert Xu
0cfad07555 [NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue
I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured
to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values
unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue.  Changing it to return
the value will allow the compiler to generate better code
since the value won't have to be memory-backed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:24 -07:00
Thomas Graf
8f4c1f9b04 [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute
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>
2007-10-10 16:49:16 -07:00