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2013-04-26genetlink: fix possible memory leak in genl_family_rcv_msg()Wei Yongjun
'attrbuf' is malloced in genl_family_rcv_msg() when family->maxattr && family->parallel_ops, thus should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak. Introduced by commit def3117493eafd9dfa1f809d861e0031b2cc8a07 (genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-25genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.Pravin B Shelar
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>
2013-03-20genetlink: trigger BUG_ON if a group name is too longMasatake YAMATO
Trigger BUG_ON if a group name is longer than GENL_NAMSIZ. Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman
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>
2012-09-08netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_createPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch defines netlink_kernel_create as a wrapper function of __netlink_kernel_create to hide the struct module *me parameter (which seems to be THIS_MODULE in all existing netlink subsystems). Suggested by David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08netlink: kill netlink_set_nonrootPablo Neira Ayuso
Replace netlink_set_nonroot by one new field `flags' in struct netlink_kernel_cfg that is passed to netlink_kernel_create. This patch also renames NL_NONROOT_* to NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_* since now the flags field in nl_table is generic (so we can add more flags if needed in the future). Also adjust all callers in the net-next tree to use these flags instead of netlink_set_nonroot. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-24genetlink: define lockdep_genl_is_held() when CONFIG_LOCKDEPWANG Cong
lockdep_is_held() is defined when CONFIG_LOCKDEP, not CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functionsBen Hutchings
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_createPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch adds the following structure: struct netlink_kernel_cfg { unsigned int groups; void (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb); struct mutex *cb_mutex; }; That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations for netlink kernel sockets. I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still left in the original interface. That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows easy extensibility of this interface in the future. This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-29genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module aliasNeil Horman
Generic netlink searches for -type- formatted aliases when requesting a module to fulfill a protocol request (i.e. net-pf-16-proto-16-type-<x>, where x is a type value). However generic netlink protocols have no well defined type numbers, they have string names. Modify genl_ctrl_getfamily to request an alias in the format net-pf-16-proto-16-family-<x> instead, where x is a generic string, and add a macro that builds on the previously added MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME macro to allow modules to specifify those generic strings. Note, l2tp previously hacked together an net-pf-16-proto-16-type-l2tp alias using the MODULE_ALIAS macro, with these updates we can convert that to use the PROTO_NAME macro. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-01genetlink: Stop using NLA_PUT*().David S. Miller
These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error prone and make code hard to audit. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-26netlink: add netlink_dump_control structure for netlink_dump_start()Pablo Neira Ayuso
Davem considers that the argument list of this interface is getting out of control. This patch tries to address this issue following his proposal: struct netlink_dump_control c = { .dump = dump, .done = done, ... }; netlink_dump_start(..., &c); Suggested by David S. Miller. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.Denys Vlasenko
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>
2012-01-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-securityLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security: capabilities: remove __cap_full_set definition security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable() ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat capabilities: remove task_ns_* functions capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call capabilities: style only - move capable below ns_capable capabilites: introduce new has_ns_capabilities_noaudit capabilities: call has_ns_capability from has_capability capabilities: remove all _real_ interfaces capabilities: introduce security_capable_noaudit capabilities: reverse arguments to security_capable capabilities: remove the task from capable LSM hook entirely selinux: sparse fix: fix several warnings in the security server cod selinux: sparse fix: fix warnings in netlink code selinux: sparse fix: eliminate warnings for selinuxfs selinux: sparse fix: declare selinux_disable() in security.h selinux: sparse fix: move selinux_complete_init selinux: sparse fix: make selinux_secmark_refcount static SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert() Manually fix up a semantic mis-merge wrt security_netlink_recv(): - the interface was removed in commit fd7784615248 ("security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()") - a new user of it appeared in commit a38f7907b926 ("crypto: Add userspace configuration API") causing no automatic merge conflict, but Eric Paris pointed out the issue.
2012-01-05security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()Eric Paris
Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective capabilities from the skb that was being received. Today we instead get the capabilities from the current task. This has rendered the entire purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the capable() call. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2011-12-28genetlink: add auto module loadingStephen Hemminger
When testing L2TP support, I discovered that the l2tp module is not autoloaded as are other netlink interfaces. There is because of lack of hook in genetlink to call request_module and load the module. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-22netlink: af_netlink cleanup (v2)stephen hemminger
Don't inline functions that cover several lines, and do inline the trivial ones. Also make some arguments const. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-03genetlink: Add lockdep_genl_is_held().Pravin B Shelar
Open vSwitch uses genl_mutex locking to protect datapath data-structures like flow-table, flow-actions. Following patch adds lockdep_genl_is_held() which is used for rcu annotation to prove locking. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03genetlink: Add genl_notify()Pravin B Shelar
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>
2011-06-09rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump sizeGreg Rose
The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to a single page. This is not enough for additional interface info available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately 40 VFs were created per interface. Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate enough data to satisfy the request. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-01-19Revert "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite"David S. Miller
This reverts commit 0ab03c2b1478f2438d2c80204f7fef65b1bca9cf. It breaks several things including the avahi daemon. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-09netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP compositeJan Engelhardt
Due to NLM_F_DUMP is composed of two bits, NLM_F_ROOT | NLM_F_MATCH, when doing "if (x & NLM_F_DUMP)", it tests for _either_ of the bits being set. Because NLM_F_MATCH's value overlaps with NLM_F_EXCL, non-dump requests with NLM_F_EXCL set are mistaken as dump requests. Substitute the condition to test for _all_ bits being set. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05genetlink: introduce pre_doit/post_doit hooksJohannes Berg
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>
2010-07-26genetlink: use genl_register_family_with_ops()Changli Gao
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-26genetlink: cleanup code according to CodingStyleChangli Gao
If the function is exported, the EXPORT* macro for it should follow immediately after the closing function brace line. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> ---- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-03netlink: Export genl_lock() API for use by modulesJames Chapman
This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink processing. Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-01-13genetlink: optimize ctrl_dumpfamily()Samir Bellabes
there is a unnecessary test which can be replaced by a good initialization in the 'for' statement Noticed by Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17genetlink: Optimize and one bug fix in genl_generate_id()Krishna Kumar
1. GENL_MIN_ID is a valid id -> no need to start at GENL_MIN_ID + 1. 2. Avoid going through the ids two times: If we start at GENL_MIN_ID+1 (*or bigger*) and all ids are over!, the code iterates through the list twice (*or lesser*). 3. Simplify code - no need to start at idx=0 which gets reset to GENL_MIN_ID. Patch on net-next-2.6. Reboot test shows that first id passed to genl_register_family was 16, next two were GENL_ID_GENERATE and genl_generate_id returned 17 & 18 (user level testing of same code shows expected values across entire range of MIN/MAX). Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17genetlink: Optimize genl_register_family()Krishna Kumar
genl_register_family() doesn't need to call genl_family_find_byid when GENL_ID_GENERATE is passed during register. Patch on net-next-2.6, compile and reboot testing only. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-24genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)Johannes Berg
Similar to commit d136f1bd366fdb7e747ca7e0218171e7a00a98a5, there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family, which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod 2 locks held by rmmod/1510: #0: (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130 #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120 Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150 [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100 [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60 [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120 [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130 [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211] [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211] Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock before doing rcu_read_lock(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-14genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table lockingJohannes Berg
Since my commits introducing netns awareness into genetlink we can get this problem: BUG: scheduling while atomic: modprobe/1178/0x00000002 2 locks held by modprobe/1178: #0: (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8135ee1a>] genl_register_mc_grou #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8135eeb5>] genl_register_mc_g Pid: 1178, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-wl-34789-g95cb731-dirty # Call Trace: [<ffffffff8103e285>] __schedule_bug+0x85/0x90 [<ffffffff81403138>] schedule+0x108/0x588 [<ffffffff8135b131>] netlink_table_grab+0xa1/0xf0 [<ffffffff8135c3a7>] netlink_change_ngroups+0x47/0x100 [<ffffffff8135ef0f>] genl_register_mc_group+0x12f/0x290 because I overlooked that netlink_table_grab() will schedule, thinking it was just the rwlock. However, in the contention case, that isn't actually true. Fix this by letting the code grab the netlink table lock first and then the RCU for netns protection. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04netlink: silence compiler warningBrian Haley
CC net/netlink/genetlink.o net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_register_mc_group’: net/netlink/genetlink.c:139: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function From following the code 'err' is initialized, but set it to zero to silence the warning. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12genetlink: make netns awareJohannes Berg
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 Mirosław
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>
2009-01-07genetlink: export genl_unregister_mc_group()Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL() to genl_unregister_mc_group(), to allow unregistering groups on the run. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() is not used as the rest of the functions exported by this module (eg: genl_register_mc_group) are also not _GPL(). Cleanup is currently done when unregistering a family, but there is no way to unregister a single multicast group due to that function not being exported. Seems to be a mistake as it is documented as for external consumption. This is needed by the WiMAX stack to be able to cleanup unused mc groups. Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-06-18netlink: genl: fix circular lockingPatrick McHardy
genetlink has a circular locking dependency when dumping the registered families: - dump start: genl_rcv() : take genl_mutex genl_rcv_msg() : call netlink_dump_start() while holding genl_mutex netlink_dump_start(), netlink_dump() : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : try to detect this case and not take genl_mutex a second time - dump continuance: netlink_rcv() : call netlink_dump netlink_dump : take nlk->cb_mutex ctrl_dumpfamily() : take genl_mutex Register genl_lock as callback mutex with netlink to fix this. This slightly widens an already existing module unload race, the genl ops used during the dump might go away when the module is unloaded. Thomas Graf is working on a seperate fix for this. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03netlink: Improve returned error codesThomas Graf
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>
2008-02-12[GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.Pavel Emelyanov
The genl_unregister_family() calls the genl_unregister_mc_groups(), which takes and releases the genl_lock and then locks and releases this lock itself. Relax this behavior, all the more so the genl_unregister_mc_groups() is called from genl_unregister_family() only. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev
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[NET]: Make netlink processing routines semi-synchronious (inspired by rtnl) v2Denis V. Lunev
The code in netfilter/nfnetlink.c and in ./net/netlink/genetlink.c looks like outdated copy/paste from rtnetlink.c. Push them into sync with the original. Changes from v1: - deleted comment in nfnetlink_rcv_msg by request of Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queueHerbert Xu
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[NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlinkEric W. Biederman
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace, this includes the controlling kernel sockets. This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols to only support the initial network namespace. Request by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED. As they would if the kernel did not have the support for that netlink protocol compiled in. As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces. The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation at hash table insertion and hash table look up time. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24[GENETLINK]: Correctly report errors while registering a multicast groupThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24[GENETLINK]: Fix adjustment of number of multicast groupsThomas Graf
The current calculation of the maximum number of genetlink multicast groups seems odd, fix it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24[GENETLINK]: Fix race in genl_unregister_mc_groups()Thomas Graf
family->mcast_groups is protected by genl_lock so it must be held while accessing the list in genl_unregister_mc_groups(). Requires adding a non-locking variant of genl_unregister_mc_group(). 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 Berg
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 McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override itPatrick McHardy
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks. All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any side-effects of the previously used spinlock. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>