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2013-11-19genetlink: make multicast groups const, prevent abuseJohannes Berg1-17/+31
Register generic netlink multicast groups as an array with the family and give them contiguous group IDs. Then instead of passing the global group ID to the various functions that send messages, pass the ID relative to the family - for most families that's just 0 because the only have one group. This avoids the list_head and ID in each group, adding a new field for the mcast group ID offset to the family. At the same time, this allows us to prevent abusing groups again like the quota and dropmon code did, since we can now check that a family only uses a group it owns. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: pass family to functions using groupsJohannes Berg1-6/+16
This doesn't really change anything, but prepares for the next patch that will change the APIs to pass the group ID within the family, rather than the global group ID. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: add and use genl_set_err()Johannes Berg1-0/+14
Add a static inline to generic netlink to wrap netlink_set_err() to make it easier to use here - use it in openvswitch (the only generic netlink user of netlink_set_err()). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: remove family pointer from genl_multicast_groupJohannes Berg1-2/+0
There's no reason to have the family pointer there since it can just be passed internally where needed, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: remove genl_unregister_mc_group()Johannes Berg1-2/+0
There are no users of this API remaining, and we'll soon change group registration to be static (like ops are now) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops()Johannes Berg1-2/+6
As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops() a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the macro, this is a little safer. The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and code (once mcast groups are handled differently.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-15genetlink: unify registration functionsJohannes Berg1-4/+24
Now that the ops assignment is just two variables rather than a long list iteration etc., there's no reason to separately export __genl_register_family() and __genl_register_family_with_ops(). Unify the two functions into __genl_register_family() and make genl_register_family_with_ops() call it after assigning the ops. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14genetlink: make genl_ops flags a u8 and move to endJohannes Berg1-3/+3
To save some space in the struct on 32-bit systems, make the flags a u8 (only 4 bits are used) and also move them to the end of the struct. This has no impact on 64-bit systems as alignment of the struct in an array uses up the space anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14genetlink: allow making ops constJohannes Berg1-5/+5
Allow making the ops array const by not modifying the ops flags on registration but rather only when ops are sent out in the family information. No users are updated yet except for the pre_doit/post_doit calls in wireless (the only ones that exist now.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14genetlink: register family ops as arrayJohannes Berg1-3/+4
Instead of using a linked list, use an array. This reduces the data size needed by the users of genetlink, for example in wireless (net/wireless/nl80211.c) on 64-bit it frees up over 1K of data space. Remove the attempted sending of CTRL_CMD_NEWOPS ctrl event since genl_ctrl_event(CTRL_CMD_NEWOPS, ...) only returns -EINVAL anyway, therefore no such event could ever be sent. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14genetlink: remove genl_register_ops/genl_unregister_opsJohannes Berg1-2/+0
genl_register_ops() is still needed for internal registration, but is no longer available to users of the API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-20genetlink.h: Remove extern from function prototypesJoe Perches1-13/+13
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>
2013-08-28genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.Pravin B Shelar1-2/+18
netlink dump operations take module as parameter to hold reference for entire netlink dump duration. Currently it holds ref only on genl module which is not correct when we use ops registered to genl from another module. Following patch adds module pointer to genl_ops so that netlink can hold ref count on it. CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-25genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.Pravin B Shelar1-0/+1
All genl callbacks are serialized by genl-mutex. This can become bottleneck in multi threaded case. Following patch adds an parameter to genl_family so that a particular family can get concurrent netlink callback without genl_lock held. New rw-sem is used to protect genl callback from genl family unregister. in case of parallel_ops genl-family read-lock is taken for callbacks and write lock is taken for register or unregistration for any family. In case of locked genl family semaphore and gel-mutex is locked for any openration. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman1-17/+17
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>
2012-06-28net: Use NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE in combination with nlmsg_new()Thomas Graf1-0/+2
Using NLMSG_GOODSIZE results in multiple pages being used as nlmsg_new() will automatically add the size of the netlink header to the payload thus exceeding the page limit. NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE takes this into account. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Cc: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@openbossa.org> Cc: Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.Denys Vlasenko1-29/+2
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>
2011-12-03genetlink: Add genl_notify()Pravin B Shelar1-0/+2
Open vSwitch uses Generic Netlink interface for communication between userspace and kernel module. genl_notify() is used for sending notification back to userspace. genl_notify() is analogous to rtnl_notify() but uses genl_sock instead of rtnl. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-06-22netlink: advertise incomplete dumpsJohannes Berg1-0/+32
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>
2011-05-10treewide: fix a few typos in commentsJustin P. Mattock1-1/+1
- 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>
2011-02-03include/net/genetlink.h: Allow genlmsg_cancel to accept a NULL argumentJulia Lawall1-1/+2
nlmsg_cancel can accept NULL as its second argument, so for similarity, this patch extends genlmsg_cancel to be able to accept a NULL second argument as well. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05genetlink: introduce pre_doit/post_doit hooksJohannes Berg1-0/+18
Each family may have some amount of boilerplate locking code that applies to most, or even all, commands. This allows a family to handle such things in a more generic way, by allowing it to a) include private flags in each operation b) specify a pre_doit hook that is called, before an operation's doit() callback and may return an error directly, c) specify a post_doit hook that can undo locking or similar things done by pre_doit, and finally d) include two private pointers in each info struct passed between all these operations including doit(). (It's two because I'll need two in nl80211 -- can be extended.) 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>
2010-06-02net: CONFIG_NET_NS reductionEric Dumazet1-13/+2
Use read_pnet() and write_pnet() to reduce number of ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-04net: cleanup include/netEric Dumazet1-8/+4
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>
2009-07-12genetlink: make netns awareJohannes Berg1-7/+59
This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No generic netlink families except for the controller family are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by one and then set the family->netnsok member to true. A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace, for example when it applies to an object that lives in that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns() to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects that do not have an associated netns). The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast the message in just init_net, which is currently correct for all generic netlink families since they only work in init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all net namespaces because they do not care about the netns at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns aware in some way. After this patch families can easily decide whether or not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many genl families us it for objects not related to networking and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but that will have to be done on a per family basis. Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart problem where network namespaces could be used, genl families and multicast groups are numbered globally and I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces for those families that do not care about netns. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()Michał Mirosław1-0/+2
This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste occurrences in following patches. Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03netlink: Improve returned error codesThomas Graf1-2/+2
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>
2007-07-18[GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups.Johannes Berg1-0/+22
Introduce API to dynamically register and unregister multicast groups. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07[NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies constPatrick McHardy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENETLINK]: Add cmd dump completion.Jamal Hadi Salim1-0/+2
Remove assumption that generic netlink commands cannot have dump completion callbacks. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headersThomas Graf1-7/+24
By modyfing genlmsg_put() to take a genl_family and by adding genlmsg_put_reply() the process of constructing the netlink and generic netlink headers is simplified. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENL]: Add genlmsg_reply() to simply unicast replies to requestsThomas Graf1-0/+10
A generic netlink user has no interest in knowing how to address the source of the original request. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messagesThomas Graf1-0/+11
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-01[PATCH] Add genetlink utilities for payload length calculationBalbir Singh1-0/+18
Add two utility helper functions genlmsg_msg_size() and genlmsg_total_size(). These functions are derived from their netlink counterparts. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-22[GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl familiesThomas Graf1-2/+0
Additionaly exports the following information when providing the list of registered generic netlink families: - protocol version - header size - maximum number of attributes - list of available operations including - id - flags - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information: 0x0010 nlctrl version 1 hdrsize 0 maxattr 6 op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT] 0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1 hdrsize 0 maxattr 0 op unknown (0x02) [DOIT] op unknown (0x03) [DOIT] .... Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interfaceThomas Graf1-2/+3
Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the multicast to avoid duplicated notifications. nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to allow notification in atomic contexts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-14[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: utilities for genetlink usageBalbir Singh1-0/+20
Two utilities for simplifying usage of NETLINK_GENERIC interface. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-13[PATCH] genetlink: don't touch module ref countPer Liden1-1/+0
Increasing the module ref count at registration will block the module from ever being unloaded. In fact, genetlink should not care about the owner at all. This patch removes the owner field from the struct registered with genetlink. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03[NETLINK] genetlink: fix cmd type in genl_ops to be consistent to u8Per Liden1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> ACKed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10[NETLINK]: Generic netlink familyThomas Graf1-0/+154
The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so called controller taking care of id management and name resolving. Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making life of simple modules a lot easier. Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers, it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module name. Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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