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2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-09-25netlink: fix nla_put_{u8,u16,u32} for KASANArnd Bergmann1-18/+55
When CONFIG_KASAN is enabled, the "--param asan-stack=1" causes rather large stack frames in some functions. This goes unnoticed normally because CONFIG_FRAME_WARN is disabled with CONFIG_KASAN by default as of commit 3f181b4d8652 ("lib/Kconfig.debug: disable -Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y"). The kernelci.org build bot however has the warning enabled and that led me to investigate it a little further, as every build produces these warnings: net/wireless/nl80211.c:4389:1: warning: the frame size of 2240 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] net/wireless/nl80211.c:1895:1: warning: the frame size of 3776 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] net/wireless/nl80211.c:1410:1: warning: the frame size of 2208 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] net/bridge/br_netlink.c:1282:1: warning: the frame size of 2544 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] Most of this problem is now solved in gcc-8, which can consolidate the stack slots for the inline function arguments. On older compilers we can add a workaround by declaring a local variable in each function to pass the inline function argument. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-09-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-nextDavid S. Miller1-0/+1
Pablo Neira Ayuso says: ==================== Netfilter updates for net-next The following patchset contains Netfilter updates for your net-next tree. Basically, updates to the conntrack core, enhancements for nf_tables, conversion of netfilter hooks from linked list to array to improve memory locality and asorted improvements for the Netfilter codebase. More specifically, they are: 1) Add expection to hashes after timer initialization to prevent access from another CPU that walks on the hashes and calls del_timer(), from Florian Westphal. 2) Don't update nf_tables chain counters from hot path, this is only used by the x_tables compatibility layer. 3) Get rid of nested rcu_read_lock() calls from netfilter hook path. Hooks are always guaranteed to run from rcu read side, so remove nested rcu_read_lock() where possible. Patch from Taehee Yoo. 4) nf_tables new ruleset generation notifications include PID and name of the process that has updated the ruleset, from Phil Sutter. 5) Use skb_header_pointer() from nft_fib, so we can reuse this code from the nf_family netdev family. Patch from Pablo M. Bermudo. 6) Add support for nft_fib in nf_tables netdev family, also from Pablo. 7) Use deferrable workqueue for conntrack garbage collection, to reduce power consumption, from Patch from Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan. 8) Add nf_ct_expect_iterate_net() helper and use it. From Florian Westphal. 9) Call nf_ct_unconfirmed_destroy only from cttimeout, from Florian. 10) Drop references on conntrack removal path when skbuffs has escaped via nfqueue, from Florian. 11) Don't queue packets to nfqueue with dying conntrack, from Florian. 12) Constify nf_hook_ops structure, from Florian. 13) Remove neededlessly branch in nf_tables trace code, from Phil Sutter. 14) Add nla_strdup(), from Phil Sutter. 15) Rise nf_tables objects name size up to 255 chars, people want to use DNS names, so increase this according to what RFC 1035 specifies. Patch series from Phil Sutter. 16) Kill nf_conntrack_default_on, it's broken. Default on conntrack hook registration on demand, suggested by Eric Dumazet, patch from Florian. 17) Remove unused variables in compat_copy_entry_from_user both in ip_tables and arp_tables code. Patch from Taehee Yoo. 18) Constify struct nf_conntrack_l4proto, from Julia Lawall. 19) Constify nf_loginfo structure, also from Julia. 20) Use a single rb root in connlimit, from Taehee Yoo. 21) Remove unused netfilter_queue_init() prototype, from Taehee Yoo. 22) Use audit_log() instead of open-coding it, from Geliang Tang. 23) Allow to mangle tcp options via nft_exthdr, from Florian. 24) Allow to fetch TCP MSS from nft_rt, from Florian. This includes a fix for a miscalculation of the minimal length. 25) Simplify branch logic in h323 helper, from Nick Desaulniers. 26) Calculate netlink attribute size for conntrack tuple at compile time, from Florian. 27) Remove protocol name field from nf_conntrack_{l3,l4}proto structure. From Florian. 28) Remove holes in nf_conntrack_l4proto structure, so it becomes smaller. From Florian. 29) Get rid of print_tuple() indirection for /proc conntrack listing. Place all the code in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c. Patch from Florian. 30) Do not built in print_conntrack() if CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROCFS is off. From Florian. 31) Constify most nf_conntrack_{l3,l4}proto helper functions, from Florian. 32) Fix broken indentation in ebtables extensions, from Colin Ian King. 33) Fix several harmless sparse warning, from Florian. 34) Convert netfilter hook infrastructure to use array for better memory locality, joint work done by Florian and Aaron Conole. Moreover, add some instrumentation to debug this. 35) Batch nf_unregister_net_hooks() calls, to call synchronize_net once per batch, from Florian. 36) Get rid of noisy logging in ICMPv6 conntrack helper, from Florian. 37) Get rid of obsolete NFDEBUG() instrumentation, from Varsha Rao. 38) Remove unused code in the generic protocol tracker, from Davide Caratti. I think I will have material for a second Netfilter batch in my queue if time allow to make it fit in this merge window. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-07-31netlink: Introduce nla_strdup()Phil Sutter1-0/+1
This is similar to strdup() for netlink string attributes. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2017-07-30net netlink: Add new type NLA_BITFIELD32Jamal Hadi Salim1-0/+16
Generic bitflags attribute content sent to the kernel by user. With this netlink attr type the user can either set or unset a flag in the kernel. The value is a bitmap that defines the bit values being set The selector is a bitmask that defines which value bit is to be considered. A check is made to ensure the rules that a kernel subsystem always conforms to bitflags the kernel already knows about. i.e if the user tries to set a bit flag that is not understood then the _it will be rejected_. In the most basic form, the user specifies the attribute policy as: [ATTR_GOO] = { .type = NLA_BITFIELD32, .validation_data = &myvalidflags }, where myvalidflags is the bit mask of the flags the kernel understands. If the user _does not_ provide myvalidflags then the attribute will also be rejected. Examples: value = 0x0, and selector = 0x1 implies we are selecting bit 1 and we want to set its value to 0. value = 0x2, and selector = 0x2 implies we are selecting bit 2 and we want to set its value to 1. Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-07-13netlink: correctly document nla_put_u64_64bit()Rolf Eike Beer1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-13netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functionsJohannes Berg1-10/+23
Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers (except for some in the core.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-04-13netlink: extended ACK reportingJohannes Berg1-1/+2
Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink extended ACK reporting. All "manual" calls to netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and thus don't get extended ACK reporting. Big thanks goes to Pablo Neira Ayuso for not only bringing up the whole topic at netconf (again) but also coming up with the nlattr passing trick and various other ideas. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-02-04net: ipv6: Change notifications for multipath add to RTA_MULTIPATHDavid Ahern1-0/+1
Change ip6_route_multipath_add to send one notifciation with the full route encoded with RTA_MULTIPATH instead of a series of individual routes. This is done by adding a skip_notify flag to the nl_info struct. The flag is used to skip sending of the notification in the fib code that actually inserts the route. Once the full route has been added, a notification is generated with all nexthops. ip6_route_multipath_add handles 3 use cases: new routes, route replace, and route append. The multipath notification generated needs to be consistent with the order of the nexthops and it should be consistent with the order in a FIB dump which means the route with the first nexthop needs to be used as the route reference. For the first 2 cases (new and replace), a reference to the route used to send the notification is obtained by saving the first route added. For the append case, the last route added is used to loop back to its first sibling route which is the first nexthop in the multipath route. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-12-13netlink: revert broken, broken "2-clause nla_ok()"Alexey Dobriyan1-1/+2
Commit 4f7df337fe79bba1e4c2d525525d63b5ba186bbd "netlink: 2-clause nla_ok()" is BROKEN. First clause tests if "->nla_len" could even be accessed at all, it can not possibly be omitted. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-12-03netlink: 2-clause nla_ok()Alexey Dobriyan1-2/+1
nla_ok() consists of 3 clauses: 1) int rem >= (int)sizeof(struct nlattr) 2) u16 nla_len >= sizeof(struct nlattr) 3) u16 nla_len <= int rem The statement is that clause (1) is redundant. What it does is ensuring that "rem" is a positive number, so that in clause (3) positive number will be compared to positive number with no problems. However, "u16" fully fits into "int" and integers do not change value when upcasting even to signed type. Negative integers will be rejected by clause (3) just fine. Small positive integers will be rejected by transitivity of comparison operator. NOTE: all of the above DOES NOT apply to nlmsg_ok() where ->nlmsg_len is u32(!), so 3 clauses AND A CAST TO INT are necessary. Obligatory space savings report: -1.6 KB $ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000* ../vmlinux-001* add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 3/63 up/down: 35/-1692 (-1657) function old new delta validate_scan_freqs 142 155 +13 tcf_em_tree_validate 867 879 +12 dcbnl_ieee_del 328 338 +10 netlbl_cipsov4_add_common.isra 218 215 -3 ... ovs_nla_put_actions 888 806 -82 netlbl_cipsov4_add_std 1648 1566 -82 nl80211_parse_sched_scan 2889 2780 -109 ip_tun_from_nlattr 3086 2945 -141 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-19netlink: use "unsigned int" in nla_next()Alexey Dobriyan1-1/+1
->nla_len is unsigned entity (it's length after all) and u16, thus it can't overflow when being aligned into int/unsigned int. (nlmsg_next has the same code, but I didn't yet convince myself it is correct to do so). There is pointer arithmetic in this function and offset being unsigned is better: add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/64 up/down: 5/-309 (-304) function old new delta nl80211_set_wiphy 1444 1449 +5 team_nl_cmd_options_set 997 995 -2 tcf_em_tree_validate 872 870 -2 switchdev_port_bridge_setlink 352 350 -2 switchdev_port_br_afspec 312 310 -2 rtm_to_fib_config 428 426 -2 qla4xxx_sysfs_ddb_set_param 2193 2191 -2 qla4xxx_iface_set_param 4470 4468 -2 ovs_nla_free_flow_actions 152 150 -2 output_userspace 518 516 -2 ... nl80211_set_reg 654 649 -5 validate_scan_freqs 148 142 -6 validate_linkmsg 288 282 -6 nl80211_parse_connkeys 489 483 -6 nlattr_set 231 224 -7 nf_tables_delsetelem 267 260 -7 do_setlink 3416 3408 -8 netlbl_cipsov4_add_std 1672 1659 -13 nl80211_parse_sched_scan 2902 2888 -14 nl80211_trigger_scan 1738 1720 -18 do_execute_actions 2821 2738 -83 Total: Before=154865355, After=154865051, chg -0.00% Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-29netlink: Add nla_memdup() to wrap kmemdup() use on nlattrThomas Graf1-0/+10
Wrap several common instances of: kmemdup(nla_data(attr), nla_len(attr), GFP_KERNEL); Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-16netlink: kill nla_put_u64()Nicolas Dichtel1-12/+2
This function is not used anymore. nla_put_u64_64bit() should be used instead. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23libnl: add nla_put_u64_64bit() helperNicolas Dichtel1-0/+13
With this function, nla_data() is aligned on a 64-bit area. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23libnl: nla_put_msecs(): align on a 64-bit areaNicolas Dichtel1-4/+7
nla_data() is now aligned on a 64-bit area. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23libnl: nla_put_s64(): align on a 64-bit areaNicolas Dichtel1-4/+7
nla_data() is now aligned on a 64-bit area. In fact, there is no user of this function. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23libnl: nla_put_net64(): align on a 64-bit areaNicolas Dichtel1-8/+6
nla_data() is now aligned on a 64-bit area. The temporary function nla_put_be64_32bit() is removed in this patch. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23libnl: nla_put_be64(): align on a 64-bit areaNicolas Dichtel1-4/+11
nla_data() is now aligned on a 64-bit area. A temporary version (nla_put_be64_32bit()) is added for nla_put_net64(). This function is removed in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-23libnl: nla_put_le64(): align on a 64-bit areaNicolas Dichtel1-3/+5
nla_data() is now aligned on a 64-bit area. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-21libnl: add more helpers to align attributes on 64-bitNicolas Dichtel1-8/+31
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-20net: nla_align_64bit() needs to test the right pointer.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Netlink messages are appended, one object at a time, to the end of the SKB. Therefore we need to test skb_tail_pointer() not skb->data for alignment. Fixes: 35c5845957c7 ("net: Add helpers for 64-bit aligning netlink attributes.") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-20net: fix HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS typosEric Dumazet1-8/+11
HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS needs CONFIG_ prefix. Also add a comment in nla_align_64bit() explaining we have to add a padding if current skb->data is aligned, as it certainly can be confusing. Fixes: 35c5845957c7 ("net: Add helpers for 64-bit aligning netlink attributes.") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-19net: Add helpers for 64-bit aligning netlink attributes.David S. Miller1-0/+37
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-30netlink: add nla_get for le32 and le64Alexander Aring1-0/+18
This patch adds missing inline wrappers for nla_get_le32 and nla_get_le64. The 802.15.4 MAC byteorder is little endian and we keep the byteorder for fields like address configuration in the same byteorder as it comes from the MAC layer. To provide these fields for nl802154 userspace applications, we need these inline wrappers for netlink. Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2015-03-31netlink: implement nla_get_in_addr and nla_get_in6_addrJiri Benc1-0/+21
Those are counterparts to nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-31netlink: implement nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addrJiri Benc1-0/+29
IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions to do that. For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is used to store IPv4 address. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-18netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() voidJohannes Berg1-5/+1
Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb. This makes the very common pattern of if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... } be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do return nlmsg_end(...); and the caller is expected to deal with it. This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very common to write if (my_function(...)) /* error condition */ and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong. Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there. Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did - return nlmsg_end(...); + nlmsg_end(...); + return 0; I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more efficient version. One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time. I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-05netlink: Warn on unordered or illegal nla_nest_cancel() or nlmsg_cancel()Thomas Graf1-1/+3
Calling nla_nest_cancel() in a different order as the nesting was built up can lead to negative offsets being calculated which results in skb_trim() being called with an underflowed unsigned int. Warn if mark < skb->data as it's definitely a bug. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-28datapath: Rename last_action() as nla_is_last() and move to netlink.hSimon Horman1-0/+10
The original motivation for this change was to allow the helper to be used in files other than actions.c as part of work on an odp select group action. It was as pointed out by Thomas Graf that this helper would be best off living in netlink.h. Furthermore, I think that the generic nature of this helper means it is best off in netlink.h regardless of if it is used more than one .c file or not. Thus, I would like it considered independent of the work on an odp select group action. Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Cc: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-16netlink: fix description of portidNicolas Dichtel1-1/+1
Avoid confusion between pid and portid. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-28netlink: Fix shadow warning on jiffiesMark Rustad1-3/+3
Change formal parameter name to not shadow the global jiffies. Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-21netevent/netlink.h: Remove extern from function prototypesJoe Perches1-38/+25
There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for function prototypes. Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern. extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-10netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman1-13/+13
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>
2012-08-03netlink: add signed typesJiri Pirko1-0/+98
Signed types might be needed in NL communication from time to time (I need s32 in team driver), so add them. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-02netlink: Delete all NLA_PUT*() macros.David S. Miller1-68/+0
They were error prone due to an embedded goto, and the entire tree has been converted away from using them. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-02netlink: Add nla_put_le{16,32,64}() helpers.David S. Miller1-0/+33
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-02netlink: Add nla_put_net{16,32,64}() helpers.David S. Miller1-0/+33
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-01netlink: Add nla_put_be{16,32,64}() helpers.David S. Miller1-1/+34
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-30net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.Denys Vlasenko1-35/+0
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>
2011-11-04netlink: clarify attribute length check documentationJohannes Berg1-2/+9
The documentation for how the length of attributes is checked is wrong ("Exact length" isn't true, the policy checks are for "minimum length") and a bit misleading. Make it more complete and explain what really happens. Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-06-22netlink: advertise incomplete dumpsJohannes Berg1-0/+24
Consider the following situation: * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first round, and four in the second * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are removed * now the second round will not show any entry, and even if there is a sequence/generation counter the application will not know To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE message that terminates the dump, and as such above situation can be detected. To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs to use this new functionality. The correct way to do that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for each new message. The core code will also call this function for the final MSG_DONE message. To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header from the genetlink user header. 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>
2011-05-10treewide: fix a few typos in commentsJustin P. Mattock1-1/+1
- kenrel -> kernel - whetehr -> whether - ttt -> tt - sss -> ss Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-02-01netfilter: NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macrosJozsef Kadlecsik1-0/+9
The patch adds the NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macros to the vanilla kernel. Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-16netlink: let nlmsg and nla functions take pointer-to-const argsJan Engelhardt1-8/+13
The changed functions do not modify the NL messages and/or attributes at all. They should use const (similar to strchr), so that callers which have a const nlmsg/nlattr around can make use of them without casting. While at it, constify a data array. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-04netlink: Make nlmsg_find_attr take a const nlmsghdr*.Nelson Elhage1-1/+1
This will let us use it on a nlmsghdr stored inside a netlink_callback. Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-23net: Fix a typo in netlink.hJustin P. Mattock1-1/+1
Fix a typo in include/net/netlink.h should be finalize instead of finanlize Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-19netlink: fix unaligned access in nla_get_be64()Pablo Neira Ayuso1-1/+5
This patch fixes a unaligned access in nla_get_be64() that was introduced by myself in a17c859849402315613a0015ac8fbf101acf0cc1. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18const: struct nla_policyAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+1
Make remaining netlink policies as const. Fixup coding style where needed. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-25netlink: constify nlmsghdr argumentsPatrick McHardy1-2/+2
Consitfy nlmsghdr arguments to a couple of functions as preparation for the next patch, which will constify the netlink message data in all nfnetlink users. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>