linux-dev/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.h, branch linus/master

batman-adv: Check ptr for NULL before reducing its refcnt

2021-08-08T18:21:40Z

The commit b37a46683739 ("netdevice: add the case if dev is NULL") changed the way how the NULL check for net_devices have to be handled when trying to reduce its reference counter. Before this commit, it was the responsibility of the caller to check whether the object is NULL or not. But it was changed to behave more like kfree. Now the callee has to handle the NULL-case. The batman-adv code was scanned via cocinelle for similar places. These were changed to use the paradigm @@ identifier E, T, R, C; identifier put; @@ void put(struct T *E) { + if (!E) + return; kref_put(&E->C, R); } Functions which were used in other sources files were moved to the header to allow the compiler to inline the NULL check and the kref_put call. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Avoid name based attaching of hard interfaces

2021-06-02T20:25:45Z

The sysfs code for the batman-adv/mesh_iface file was receiving a string of the batadv interface. This interface name was then provided to the code which shared sysfs+rtnetlink code for attaching an hard-interface to an batadv interface. The rtnetlink code was also using the (extracted) interface name from the ndo_add_slave callback to increase the shared code - even when it would have been more efficient to use the provided net_device object directly instead of searching it again (based on its name) in batadv_hardif_enable_interface. But this indirect handling is no longer necessary because the sysfs code was dropped. There is now only a single code path which is using batadv_hardif_enable_interface. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop publication years from copyright info

2021-02-06T08:22:10Z

The batman-adv source code was using the year of publication (to net-next) as "last" year for the copyright statement. The whole source code mentioned in the MAINTAINERS "BATMAN ADVANCED" section was handled as a single entity regarding the publishing year. This avoided having outdated (in sense of year information - not copyright holder) publishing information inside several files. But since the simple "update copyright year" commit (without other changes) in the file was not well received in the upstream kernel, the option to not have a copyright year (for initial and last publication) in the files are chosen instead. More detailed information about the years can still be retrieved from the SCM system. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Acked-by: Marek Lindner Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop legacy code for auto deleting mesh interfaces

2020-12-04T07:40:52Z

The only way to automatically drop batadv mesh interfaces when all soft interfaces were removed was dropped with the sysfs support. It is no longer needed to have them handled by kernel anymore. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop deprecated sysfs support

2020-12-04T07:40:52Z

The sysfs in batman-adv support was marked as deprecated by the commit 42cdd521487f ("batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated") and scheduled for removal in 2021. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop unused function batadv_hardif_remove_interfaces()

2020-08-18T17:39:53Z

The function batadv_hardif_remove_interfaces was meant to remove all interfaces which are currently in the list of known (compatible) hardifs during module unload. But the function unregister_netdevice_notifier is called in batadv_exit before batadv_hardif_remove_interfaces. This will trigger NETDEV_UNREGISTER events for all available interfaces and in this process remove all interfaces from batadv_hardif_list. And batadv_hardif_remove_interfaces only operated on this (empty) list. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2020

2019-12-31T23:00:33Z

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Use includes instead of fwdecls

2019-05-25T10:59:53Z

While it can be slightly beneficial for the build performance to use forward declarations instead of includes, the handling of them together with changes in the included headers makes it unnecessary complicated and fragile. Just replace them with actual includes since some parts (hwmon, ..) of the kernel even request avoidance of forward declarations and net/ is mostly not using them in *.c file. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop license boilerplate

2019-03-25T08:31:35Z

All files got a SPDX-License-Identifier with commit 7db7d9f369a4 ("batman-adv: Add SPDX license identifier above copyright header"). All the required information about the license conditions can be found in LICENSES/. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

2019-01-04T10:04:24Z