summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
AgeCommit message (Collapse)AuthorFilesLines
2015-01-17bridge: fix setlink/dellink notificationsRoopa Prabhu1-0/+5
problems with bridge getlink/setlink notifications today: - bridge setlink generates two notifications to userspace - one from the bridge driver - one from rtnetlink.c (rtnl_bridge_notify) - dellink generates one notification from rtnetlink.c. Which means bridge setlink and dellink notifications are not consistent - Looking at the code it appears, If both BRIDGE_FLAGS_MASTER and BRIDGE_FLAGS_SELF were set, the size calculation in rtnl_bridge_notify can be wrong. Example: if you set both BRIDGE_FLAGS_MASTER and BRIDGE_FLAGS_SELF in a setlink request to rocker dev, rtnl_bridge_notify will allocate skb for one set of bridge attributes, but, both the bridge driver and rocker dev will try to add attributes resulting in twice the number of attributes being added to the skb. (rocker dev calls ndo_dflt_bridge_getlink) There are multiple options: 1) Generate one notification including all attributes from master and self: But, I don't think it will work, because both master and self may use the same attributes/policy. Cannot pack the same set of attributes in a single notification from both master and slave (duplicate attributes). 2) Generate one notification from master and the other notification from self (This seems to be ideal): For master: the master driver will send notification (bridge in this example) For self: the self driver will send notification (rocker in the above example. It can use helpers from rtnetlink.c to do so. Like the ndo_dflt_bridge_getlink api). This patch implements 2) (leaving the 'rtnl_bridge_notify' around to be used with 'self'). v1->v2 : - rtnl_bridge_notify is now called only for self, so, remove 'BRIDGE_FLAGS_SELF' check and cleanup a few things - rtnl_bridge_dellink used to always send a RTM_NEWLINK msg earlier. So, I have changed the notification from br_dellink to go as RTM_NEWLINK Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-13bridge: fix uninitialized variable warningRoopa Prabhu1-7/+9
net/bridge/br_netlink.c: In function ‘br_fill_ifinfo’: net/bridge/br_netlink.c:146:32: warning: ‘vid_range_flags’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] err = br_fill_ifvlaninfo_range(skb, vid_range_start, ^ net/bridge/br_netlink.c:108:6: note: ‘vid_range_flags’ was declared here u16 vid_range_flags; Reported-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12bridge: new function to pack vlans into ranges during getsRoopa Prabhu1-21/+124
This patch adds new function to pack vlans into ranges whereever applicable using the flags BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_RANGE_BEGIN and BRIDGE VLAN_INFO_RANGE_END Old vlan packing code is moved to a new function and continues to be called when filter_mask is RTEXT_FILTER_BRVLAN. Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-12bridge: support for multiple vlans and vlan ranges in setlink and dellink ↵Roopa Prabhu1-36/+68
requests This patch changes bridge IFLA_AF_SPEC netlink attribute parser to look for more than one IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO attribute. This allows userspace to pack more than one vlan in the setlink msg. The dumps were already sending more than one vlan info in the getlink msg. This patch also adds bridge_vlan_info flags BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_RANGE_BEGIN and BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_RANGE_END to indicate start and end of vlan range This patch also deletes unused ifla_br_policy. Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-0/+1
2014-11-26bridge: Add missing policy entry for IFLA_BRPORT_FAST_LEAVEThomas Graf1-0/+1
Fixes: c2d3babf ("bridge: implement multicast fast leave") Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-27bridge: Add support for IEEE 802.11 Proxy ARPKyeyoon Park1-1/+3
This feature is defined in IEEE Std 802.11-2012, 10.23.13. It allows the AP devices to keep track of the hardware-address-to-IP-address mapping of the mobile devices within the WLAN network. The AP will learn this mapping via observing DHCP, ARP, and NS/NA frames. When a request for such information is made (i.e. ARP request, Neighbor Solicitation), the AP will respond on behalf of the associated mobile device. In the process of doing so, the AP will drop the multicast request frame that was intended to go out to the wireless medium. It was recommended at the LKS workshop to do this implementation in the bridge layer. vxlan.c is already doing something very similar. The DHCP snooping code will be added to the userspace application (hostapd) per the recommendation. This RFC commit is only for IPv4. A similar approach in the bridge layer will be taken for IPv6 as well. Signed-off-by: Kyeyoon Park <kyeyoonp@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-01net: bridge: add a br_set_state helper functionFlorian Fainelli1-1/+1
In preparation for being able to propagate port states to e.g: notifiers or other kernel parts, do not manipulate the port state directly, but instead use a helper function which will allow us to do a bit more than just setting the state. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-26netfilter: bridge: move br_netfilter out of the corePablo Neira Ayuso1-1/+1
Jesper reported that br_netfilter always registers the hooks since this is part of the bridge core. This harms performance for people that don't need this. This patch modularizes br_netfilter so it can be rmmod'ed, thus, the hooks can be unregistered. I think the bridge netfilter should have been a separated module since the beginning, Patrick agreed on that. Note that this is breaking compatibility for users that expect that bridge netfilter is going to be available after explicitly 'modprobe bridge' or via automatic load through brctl. However, the damage can be easily undone by modprobing br_netfilter. The bridge core also spots a message to provide a clue to people that didn't notice that this has been deprecated. On top of that, the plan is that nftables will not rely on this software layer, but integrate the connection tracking into the bridge layer to enable stateful filtering and NAT, which is was bridge netfilter users seem to require. This patch still keeps the fake_dst_ops in the bridge core, since this is required by when the bridge port is initialized. So we can safely modprobe/rmmod br_netfilter anytime. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2014-09-09bridge: Cleanup of unncessary check.Rami Rosen1-3/+0
This patch removes an unncessary check in the br_afspec() method of br_netlink.c. Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-09bridge: implement rtnl_link_ops->changelinkJiri Pirko1-0/+39
Allow rtnetlink users to set bridge master info via IFLA_INFO_DATA attr This initial part implements forward_delay, hello_time, max_age options. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-09bridge: implement rtnl_link_ops->get_size and rtnl_link_ops->fill_infoJiri Pirko1-0/+25
Allow rtnetlink users to get bridge master info in IFLA_INFO_DATA attr This initial part implements forward_delay, hello_time, max_age options. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-09bridge: implement rtnl_link_ops->slave_changelinkJiri Pirko1-2/+16
Allow rtnetlink users to set port info via IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA attr Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-09bridge: implement rtnl_link_ops->get_slave_size and ↵Jiri Pirko1-6/+21
rtnl_link_ops->fill_slave_info Allow rtnetlink users to get port info in IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_DATA attr Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-04bridge: remove a useless commentMichael S. Tsirkin1-1/+0
commit 6cbdceeb1cb12c7d620161925a8c3e81daadb2e4 bridge: Dump vlan information from a bridge port introduced a comment in an attempt to explain the code logic. The comment is unfinished so it confuses more than it explains, remove it. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-05-16bridge: Keep track of ports capable of automatic discovery.Vlad Yasevich1-0/+3
By default, ports on the bridge are capable of automatic discovery of nodes located behind the port. This is accomplished via flooding of unknown traffic (BR_FLOOD) and learning the mac addresses from these packets (BR_LEARNING). If the above functionality is disabled by turning off these flags, the port requires static configuration in the form of static FDB entries to function properly. This patch adds functionality to keep track of all ports capable of automatic discovery. This will later be used to control promiscuity settings. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-27bridge: Handle IFLA_ADDRESS correctly when creating bridge deviceToshiaki Makita1-0/+15
When bridge device is created with IFLA_ADDRESS, we are not calling br_stp_change_bridge_id(), which leads to incorrect local fdb management and bridge id calculation, and prevents us from receiving frames on the bridge device. Reported-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01netlink: cleanup rntl_af_registerstephen hemminger1-4/+1
The function __rtnl_af_register is never called outside this code, and the return value is always 0. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-19bridge: remove unnecessary condition judgmenttanxiaojun1-2/+1
Because err is always negative, remove unnecessary condition judgment. Signed-off-by: Tan Xiaojun <tanxiaojun@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-10net: more spelling fixesstephen hemminger1-2/+2
Various spelling fixes in networking stack Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-18bridge: Don't use VID 0 and 4095 in vlan filteringToshiaki Makita1-1/+1
IEEE 802.1Q says that: - VID 0 shall not be configured as a PVID, or configured in any Filtering Database entry. - VID 4095 shall not be configured as a PVID, or transmitted in a tag header. This VID value may be used to indicate a wildcard match for the VID in management operations or Filtering Database entries. (See IEEE 802.1Q-2011 6.9.1 and Table 9-2) Don't accept adding these VIDs in the vlan_filtering implementation. Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-15bridge: use br_port_get_rtnl within rtnl lockHong Zhiguo1-2/+2
current br_port_get_rcu is problematic in bridging path (NULL deref). Change these calls in netlink path first. Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <zhiguohong@tencent.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-20bridge: Use the correct bit length for bitmap functions in the VLAN codeToshiaki Makita1-2/+2
The VLAN code needs to know the length of the per-port VLAN bitmap to perform its most basic operations (retrieving VLAN informations, removing VLANs, forwarding database manipulation, etc). Unfortunately, in the current implementation we are using a macro that indicates the bitmap size in longs in places where the size in bits is expected, which in some cases can cause what appear to be random failures. Use the correct macro. Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-11bridge: Add a flag to control unicast packet flood.Vlad Yasevich1-1/+5
Add a flag to control flood of unicast traffic. By default, flood is on and the bridge will flood unicast traffic if it doesn't know the destination. When the flag is turned off, unicast traffic without an FDB will not be forwarded to the specified port. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-11bridge: Add flag to control mac learning.Vlad Yasevich1-1/+5
Allow user to control whether mac learning is enabled on the port. By default, mac learning is enabled. Disabling mac learning will cause new dynamic FDB entries to not be created for a particular port. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-28bridge: remove unused variable ifmHong zhi guo1-9/+3
Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-24bridge: avoid br_ifinfo_notify when nothing changedHong zhi guo1-2/+2
When neither IFF_BRIDGE nor IFF_BRIDGE_PORT is set, and afspec == NULL but protinfo != NULL, we run into "if (err == 0) br_ifinfo_notify(RTM_NEWLINK, p);" with random value in ret. Thanks to Sergei for pointing out the error in commit comments. Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-0/+1
Pull in the 'net' tree to get Daniel Borkmann's flow dissector infrastructure change. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-17bridge: Add support for setting BR_ROOT_BLOCK flag.Vlad Yasevich1-0/+1
Most of the support was already there. The only thing that was missing was the call to set the flag. Add this call. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-12bridge: using for_each_set_bit to simplify the codeWei Yongjun1-4/+1
Using for_each_set_bit() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-12bridge: reserve space for IFLA_BRPORT_FAST_LEAVEstephen hemminger1-0/+1
The bridge multicast fast leave feature was added sufficient space was not reserved in the netlink message. This means the flag may be lost in netlink events and results of queries. Found by observation while looking up some netlink stuff for discussion with Vlad. Problem introduced by commit c2d3babfafbb9f6629cfb47139758e59a5eb0d80 Author: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Date: Wed Dec 5 16:24:45 2012 -0500 bridge: implement multicast fast leave Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-14bridge: make ifla_br_policy and br_af_ops staticCong Wang1-2/+2
They are only used within this file. Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13bridge: Separate egress policy bitmapVlad Yasevich1-0/+4
Add an ability to configure a separate "untagged" egress policy to the VLAN information of the bridge. This superseeds PVID policy and makes PVID ingress-only. The policy is configured with a new flag and is represented as a port bitmap per vlan. Egress frames with a VLAN id in "untagged" policy bitmap would egress the port without VLAN header. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13bridge: Add the ability to configure pvidVlad Yasevich1-3/+8
A user may designate a certain vlan as PVID. This means that any ingress frame that does not contain a vlan tag is assigned to this vlan and any forwarding decisions are made with this vlan in mind. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13bridge: Dump vlan information from a bridge portVlad Yasevich1-11/+83
Using the RTM_GETLINK dump the vlan filter list of a given bridge port. The information depends on setting the filter flag similar to how nic VF info is dumped. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13bridge: Add netlink interface to configure vlans on bridge portsVlad Yasevich1-18/+121
Add a netlink interface to add and remove vlan configuration on bridge port. The interface uses the RTM_SETLINK message and encodes the vlan configuration inside the IFLA_AF_SPEC. It is possble to include multiple vlans to either add or remove in a single message. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller1-1/+12
Conflicts: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c Both conflicts were simply overlapping context. A build fix for qlcnic is in here too, simply removing the added devinit annotations which no longer exist. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-03bridge: Correctly unregister MDB rtnetlink handlersVlad Yasevich1-1/+12
Commit 63233159fd4e596568f5f168ecb0879b61631d47: bridge: Do not unregister all PF_BRIDGE rtnl operations introduced a bug where a removal of a single bridge from a multi-bridge system would remove MDB netlink handlers. The handlers should only be removed once all bridges are gone, but since we don't keep track of the number of bridge interfaces, it's simpler to do it when the bridge module is unloaded. To make it consistent, move the registration code into module initialization code path. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-30bridge: respect RFC2863 operational statestephen hemminger1-1/+4
The bridge link detection should follow the operational state of the lower device, rather than the carrier bit. This allows devices like tunnels that are controlled by userspace control plane to work with bridge STP link management. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Reviewed-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-19bridge: Do not unregister all PF_BRIDGE rtnl operationsVlad Yasevich1-1/+0
Bridge fdb and link rtnl operations are registered in core/rtnetlink. Bridge mdb operations are registred in bridge/mdb. When removing bridge module, do not unregister ALL PF_BRIDGE ops since that would remove the ops from rtnetlink as well. Do remove mdb ops when bridge is destroyed. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-10bridge: make buffer larger in br_setlink()Dan Carpenter1-1/+1
We pass IFLA_BRPORT_MAX to nla_parse_nested() so we need IFLA_BRPORT_MAX + 1 elements. Also Smatch complains that we read past the end of the array when in br_set_port_flag() when it's called with IFLA_BRPORT_FAST_LEAVE. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-12-05bridge: implement multicast fast leaveDavid S. Miller1-1/+3
V3: make it a flag V2: make the toggle per-port Fast leave allows bridge to immediately stops the multicast traffic on the port receives IGMP Leave when IGMP snooping is enabled, no timeouts are observed. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-11-18net: Enable a userns root rtnl calls that are safe for unprivilged usersEric W. Biederman1-3/+0
- Only allow moving network devices to network namespaces you have CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges over. - Enable creating/deleting/modifying interfaces - Enable adding/deleting addresses - Enable adding/setting/deleting neighbour entries - Enable adding/removing routes - Enable adding/removing fib rules - Enable setting the forwarding state - Enable adding/removing ipv6 address labels - Enable setting bridge parameter Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-18net: Push capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) into the rtnl methodsEric W. Biederman1-0/+3
- In rtnetlink_rcv_msg convert the capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) check to ns_capable(net->user-ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN). Allowing unprivileged users to make netlink calls to modify their local network namespace. - In the rtnetlink doit methods add capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) so that calls that are not safe for unprivileged users are still protected. Later patches will remove the extra capable calls from methods that are safe for unprivilged users. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-14bridge: add root port blockingstephen hemminger1-1/+4
This is Linux bridge implementation of root port guard. If BPDU is received from a leaf (edge) port, it should not be elected as root port. Why would you want to do this? If using STP on a bridge and the downstream bridges are not fully trusted; this prevents a hostile guest for rerouting traffic. Why not just use netfilter? Netfilter does not track of follow spanning tree decisions. It would be difficult and error prone to try and mirror STP resolution in netfilter module. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-14bridge: implement BPDU blockingstephen hemminger1-1/+5
This is Linux bridge implementation of STP protection (Cisco BPDU guard/Juniper BPDU block). BPDU block disables the bridge port if a STP BPDU packet is received. Why would you want to do this? If running Spanning Tree on bridge, hostile devices on the network may send BPDU and cause network failure. Enabling bpdu block will detect and stop this. How to recover the port? The port will be restarted if link is brought down, or removed and reattached. For example: # ip li set dev eth0 down; ip li set dev eth0 up Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-14bridge: bridge port parameters over netlinkstephen hemminger1-33/+132
Expose bridge port parameter over netlink. By switching to a nested message, this can be used for other bridge parameters. This changes IFLA_PROTINFO attribute from one byte to a full nested set of attributes. This is safe for application interface because the old message used IFLA_PROTINFO and new one uses IFLA_PROTINFO | NLA_F_NESTED. The code adapts to old format requests, and therefore stays compatible with user mode RSTP daemon. Since the type field for nested and unnested attributes are different, and the old code in libnetlink doesn't do the mask, it is also safe to use with old versions of bridge monitor command. Note: although mode is only a boolean, treating it as a full byte since in the future someone will probably want to add more values (like macvlan has). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-31net: set and query VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGEJohn Fastabend1-2/+0
Hardware switches may support enabling and disabling the loopback switch which puts the device in a VEPA mode defined in the IEEE 802.1Qbg specification. In this mode frames are not switched in the hardware but sent directly to the switch. SR-IOV capable NICs will likely support this mode I am aware of at least two such devices. Also I am told (but don't have any of this hardware available) that there are devices that only support VEPA modes. In these cases it is important at a minimum to be able to query these attributes. This patch adds an additional IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE attribute that can be set and dumped via the PF_BRIDGE:{SET|GET}LINK operations. Also anticipating bridge attributes that may be common for both embedded bridges and software bridges this adds a flags attribute IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS currently used to determine if the command or event is being generated to/from an embedded bridge or software bridge. Finally, the event generation is pulled out of the bridge module and into rtnetlink proper. For example using the macvlan driver in VEPA mode on top of an embedded switch requires putting the embedded switch into a VEPA mode to get the expected results. -------- -------- | VEPA | | VEPA | <-- macvlan vepa edge relays -------- -------- | | | | ------------------ | VEPA | <-- embedded switch in NIC ------------------ | | ------------------- | external switch | <-- shiny new physical ------------------- switch with VEPA support A packet sent from the macvlan VEPA at the top could be loopbacked on the embedded switch and never seen by the external switch. So in order for this to work the embedded switch needs to be set in the VEPA state via the above described commands. By making these attributes nested in IFLA_AF_SPEC we allow future extensions to be made as needed. CC: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-31net: create generic bridge opsJohn Fastabend1-60/+13
The PF_BRIDGE:RTM_{GET|SET}LINK nlmsg family and type are currently embedded in the ./net/bridge module. This prohibits them from being used by other bridging devices. One example of this being hardware that has embedded bridging components. In order to use these nlmsg types more generically this patch adds two net_device_ops hooks. One to set link bridge attributes and another to dump the current bride attributes. ndo_bridge_setlink() ndo_bridge_getlink() CC: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
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>