linux-dev/net/batman-adv/netlink.c, branch linus/master

batman-adv: allow netlink usage in unprivileged containers

2021-11-15T11:01:14Z

Currently, creating a batman-adv interface in an unprivileged LXD container and attaching secondary interfaces to it with "ip" or "batctl" works fine. However all batctl debug and configuration commands fail: root@container:~# batctl originators Error received: Operation not permitted root@container:~# batctl orig_interval 1000 root@container:~# batctl orig_interval 2000 root@container:~# batctl orig_interval 1000 To fix this change the generic netlink permissions from GENL_ADMIN_PERM to GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM. This way a batman-adv interface is fully maintainable as root from within a user namespace, from an unprivileged container. All except one batman-adv netlink setting are per interface and do not leak information or change settings from the host system and are therefore save to retrieve or modify as root from within an unprivileged container. "batctl routing_algo" / BATADV_CMD_GET_ROUTING_ALGOS is the only exception: It provides the batman-adv kernel module wide default routing algorithm. However it is read-only from netlink and an unprivileged container is still not allowed to modify /sys/module/batman_adv/parameters/routing_algo. Instead it is advised to use the newly introduced "batctl if create routing_algo RA_NAME" / IFLA_BATADV_ALGO_NAME to set the routing algorithm on interface creation, which already works fine in an unprivileged container. Cc: Tycho Andersen Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Drop NULL check before dropping references

2021-08-08T18:21:40Z

batman-adv: Always send iface index+name in genlmsg

2021-05-17T10:00:44Z

The batman-adv netlink messages often contain the interface index and interface name in the same message. This makes it easy for the receiver to operate on the incoming data when it either needs to print something or needs to operate on the interface index. But one of the attributes was missing for: * neighbor table dumps * originator table dumps * gateway list dumps * query of hardif information * query of vid information The userspace therefore had to implement special workarounds using SIOCGIFNAME or SIOCGIFINDEX depending on what was actually provided. Providing both information simplifies the userspace code massively without adding a lot of extra overhead in the kernel portion. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Fix names for kernel-doc blocks

2021-02-06T08:22:45Z

kernel-doc can only correctly identify the documented function or struct when the name in the first kernel-doc line references it. But some of the kernel-doc blocks referenced a different function/struct then it actually documented. 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: Add new include for min/max helpers

2020-12-04T07:40:52Z

The commit b296a6d53339 ("kernel.h: split out min()/max() et al. helpers") moved the min/max helper functionality from kernel.h to minmax.h. Adjust the kernel code accordingly to avoid fragile indirect includes. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

genetlink: move to smaller ops wherever possible

2020-10-03T02:11:11Z

Bulk of the genetlink users can use smaller ops, move them. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

batman-adv: Introduce a configurable per interface hop penalty

2020-06-26T08:37:11Z

In some setups multiple hard interfaces with similar link qualities or throughput values are available. But people have expressed the desire to consider one of them as a backup only. Some creative solutions are currently in use: Such people are configuring multiple batman-adv mesh/soft interfaces, wire them together with some veth pairs and then tune the hop penalty to achieve an effect similar to a tunable per interface hop penalty. This patch introduces a new, configurable, per hard interface hop penalty to simplify such setups. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

batman-adv: Fix typos and grammar in documentation

2020-06-26T08:36:30Z

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

2019-12-31T23:00:33Z