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2020-04-30netlink: add infrastructure to expose policies to userspaceJohannes Berg1-1/+1
Add, and use in generic netlink, helpers to dump out a netlink policy to userspace, including all the range validation data, nested policies etc. This lets userspace discover what the kernel understands. For families/commands other than generic netlink, the helpers need to be used directly in an appropriate command, or we can add some infrastructure (a new netlink family) that those can register their policies with for introspection. I'm not that familiar with non-generic netlink, so that's left out for now. The data exposed to userspace also includes min and max length for binary/string data, I've done that instead of letting the userspace tools figure out whether min/max is intended based on the type so that we can extend this later in the kernel, we might want to just use the range data for example. Because of this, I opted to not directly expose the NLA_* values, even if some of them are already exposed via BPF, as with min/max length we don't need to have different types here for NLA_BINARY/NLA_MIN_LEN/NLA_EXACT_LEN, we just make them all NL_ATTR_TYPE_BINARY with min/max length optionally set. Similarly, we don't really need NLA_MSECS, and perhaps can remove it in the future - but not if we encode it into the userspace API now. It gets mapped to NL_ATTR_TYPE_U64 here. Note that the exposing here corresponds to the strict policy interpretation, and NLA_UNSPEC items are omitted entirely. To get those, change them to NLA_MIN_LEN which behaves in exactly the same way, but is exposed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-05-21treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/KconfigThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which: - Have no license information of any form These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-03-21netlink: Diag core and basic socket info dumping (v2)Andrey Vagin1-0/+3
The netlink_diag can be built as a module, just like it's done in unix sockets. The core dumping message carries the basic info about netlink sockets: family, type and protocol, portis, dst_group, dst_portid, state. Groups can be received as an optional parameter NETLINK_DIAG_GROUPS. Netlink sockets cab be filtered by protocols. The socket inode number and cookie is reserved for future per-socket info retrieving. The per-protocol filtering is also reserved for future by requiring the sdiag_protocol to be zero. The file /proc/net/netlink doesn't provide enough information for dumping netlink sockets. It doesn't provide dst_group, dst_portid, groups above 32. v2: fix NETLINK_DIAG_MAX. Now it's equal to the last constant. Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to libGeert Uytterhoeven1-1/+1
Netlink attribute parsing may be used even if CONFIG_NET is not set. Move it from net/netlink to lib and control its inclusion based on the new config symbol CONFIG_NLATTR, which is selected by CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-11-10[NETLINK]: Generic netlink familyThomas Graf1-1/+1
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>
2005-11-10[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interfaceThomas Graf1-1/+1
Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!