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2007-10-10[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev1-8/+4
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. Lunev1-20/+5
The code in netfilter/nfnetlink.c and in ./net/netlink/genetlink.c looks like outdated copy/paste from rtnetlink.c. Push them into sync with the original.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[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: support attribute policiesPatrick McHardy1-35/+13
Add support for automatic checking of per-callback attribute policies. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use nlmsg_notify()Patrick McHardy1-10/+1
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: convert to generic netlink attribute functionsPatrick McHardy1-33/+6
Get rid of the duplicated rtnetlink macros and use the generic netlink attribute functions. The old duplicated stuff is moved to a new header file that exists just for userspace. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: make subsystem and callbacks constPatrick McHardy1-9/+9
Signed-off-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 Xu1-1/+1
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. Biederman1-1/+1
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>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override itPatrick McHardy1-1/+1
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>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER] nfnetlink: netlink_run_queue() already checks for NLM_F_REQUESTThomas Graf1-4/+0
Patrick has made use of netlink_run_queue() in nfnetlink while my patches have been waiting for net-2.6.22 to open. So this check for NLM_F_REQUEST can go as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handlerThomas Graf1-18/+8
The error pointer argument in netlink message handlers is used to signal the special case where processing has to be interrupted because a dump was started but no error happened. Instead it is simpler and more clear to return -EINTR and have netlink_run_queue() deal with getting the queue right. nfnetlink passed on this error pointer to its subsystem handlers but only uses it to signal the start of a netlink dump. Therefore it can be removed there as well. This patch also cleans up the error handling in the affected message handlers to be consistent since it had to be touched anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: parse attributes with nfattr_parse in nfnetlink_check_attributePablo Neira Ayuso1-14/+2
Use nfattr_parse to parse attributes, this patch also modifies the default behaviour since unknown attributes will be ignored instead of returning EINVAL. This ensure backward compatibility: new libraries with new attributes and old kernels can work. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: move EXPORT_SYMBOL declarations next to the exported symbolPablo Neira Ayuso1-7/+6
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove unused includes in nfnetlink.cPablo Neira Ayuso1-2/+0
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove unrequired check in nfnetlink_get_subsysPablo Neira Ayuso1-2/+1
subsys_table is initialized to NULL, therefore just returns NULL in case that it is not set. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove duplicate checks in nfnetlink_check_attributesPablo Neira Ayuso1-8/+1
Remove nfnetlink_check_attributes duplicates message size and callback id checks. nfnetlink_find_client and nfnetlink_rcv_msg already do such checks. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove early debugging messages from nfnetlinkPablo Neira Ayuso1-36/+6
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use netlink_run_queue()Patrick McHardy1-47/+4
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use mutex instead of semaphorePatrick McHardy1-11/+24
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-28[NET]: Handle disabled preemption in gfp_any()Patrick McHardy1-2/+1
ctnetlink uses netlink_unicast from an atomic_notifier_chain (which is called within a RCU read side critical section) without holding further locks. netlink_unicast calls netlink_trim with the result of gfp_any() for the gfp flags, which are passed down to pskb_expand_header. gfp_any() only checks for softirq context and returns GFP_KERNEL, resulting in this warning: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3032 in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 no locks held by rmmod/7010. Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109467f>] debug_show_held_locks+0x9/0xb [<ffffffff8100b0b4>] __might_sleep+0xd9/0xdb [<ffffffff810b5082>] __kmalloc+0x68/0x110 [<ffffffff811ba8f2>] pskb_expand_head+0x4d/0x13b [<ffffffff81053147>] netlink_broadcast+0xa5/0x2e0 [<ffffffff881cd1d7>] :nfnetlink:nfnetlink_send+0x83/0x8a [<ffffffff8834f6a6>] :nf_conntrack_netlink:ctnetlink_conntrack_event+0x94c/0x96a [<ffffffff810624d6>] notifier_call_chain+0x29/0x3e [<ffffffff8106251d>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x32/0x60 [<ffffffff881d266d>] :nf_conntrack:destroy_conntrack+0xa5/0x1d3 [<ffffffff881d194e>] :nf_conntrack:nf_ct_cleanup+0x8c/0x12c [<ffffffff881d4614>] :nf_conntrack:kill_l3proto+0x0/0x13 [<ffffffff881d482a>] :nf_conntrack:nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister+0x90/0x94 [<ffffffff883551b3>] :nf_conntrack_ipv4:nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4_fini+0x2b/0x5d [<ffffffff8109d44f>] sys_delete_module+0x1b5/0x1e6 [<ffffffff8105f245>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x37 [<ffffffff8105911e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Since netlink_unicast is supposed to be callable from within RCU read side critical sections, make gfp_any() check for in_atomic() instead of in_softirq(). Additionally nfnetlink_send needs to use gfp_any() as well for the call to netlink_broadcast). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-14[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.hTim Schmielau1-1/+0
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[NETFILTER]: Fix whitespace errorsYOSHIFUJI Hideaki1-5/+5
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-29[NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework.Darrel Goeddel1-1/+1
This patch encapsulates the usage of eff_cap (in netlink_skb_params) within the security framework by extending security_netlink_recv to include a required capability parameter and converting all direct usage of eff_caps outside of the lsm modules to use the interface. It also updates the SELinux implementation of the security_netlink_send and security_netlink_recv hooks to take advantage of the sid in the netlink_skb_params struct. This also enables SELinux to perform auditing of netlink capability checks. Please apply, for 2.6.18 if possible. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: avoid unneccessary event message generationPatrick McHardy1-0/+6
Avoid unneccessary event message generation by checking for netlink listeners before building a message. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-14[PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functionsArjan van de Ven1-1/+1
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-05[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: Fix calculation of minimum message lengthYasuyuki Kozakai1-3/+2
At least, valid nfnetlink message should have nlmsghdr and nfgenmsg. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14[NETFILTER] nfnetlink: unconditionally require CAP_NET_ADMINHarald Welte1-16/+12
This patch unconditionally requires CAP_NET_ADMIN for all nfnetlink messages. It also removes the per-message cap_required field, since all existing subsystems use CAP_NET_ADMIN for all their messages anyway. Patrick McHardy owes me a beer if we ever need to re-introduce this. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09[NETFILTER] nfnetlink: only load subsystems if CAP_NET_ADMIN is setHarald Welte1-7/+10
Without this patch, any user can cause nfnetlink subsystems to be autoloaded. Those subsystems however could add significant processing overhead to packet processing, and would refuse any configuration messages from non-CAP_NET_ADMIN processes anyway. This patch follows a suggestion from Patrick McHardy. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09[NETFILTER] nfnetlink: nfattr_parse() can never fail, make it voidHarald Welte1-3/+1
nfattr_parse (and thus nfattr_parse_nested) always returns success. So we can make them 'void' and remove all the checking at the caller side. Based on original patch by Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-10[NETFILTER] nfnetlink: use highest bit of nfa_type to indicate nested TLVHarald Welte1-2/+2
As Henrik Nordstrom pointed out, all our efforts with "split endian" (i.e. host byte order tags, net byte order values) are useless, unless a parser can determine whether an attribute is nested or not. This patch steals the highest bit of nfattr.nfa_type to indicate whether the data payload contains a nested nfattr (1) or not (0). This will break userspace compatibility, but luckily no kernel with nfnetlink was released so far. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-08[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro1-2/+1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t; - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with typedef) and documents what's going on far better. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-04[NETFILTER]: fix sparse gfp nocast warningsRandy Dunlap1-1/+2
Fix implicit nocast warnings in nfnetlink code: net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:204:43: warning: implicit cast to nocast type Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-05[NETFILTER]: net/netfilter/nfnetlink*: make functions staticAdrian Bunk1-2/+2
This patch makes needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_createPatrick McHardy1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasksPatrick McHardy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: cleanup nfnetlink_check_attributes()Harald Welte1-9/+10
1) memset return parameter 'cda' (nfattr pointer array) only on success 2) a message without attributes and just a 'struct nfgenmsg' is valid, don't return -EINVAL 3) use likely() and unlikely() where apropriate Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: attribute count is an attribute of message type, not subsytemHarald Welte1-4/+16
Prior to this patch, every nfnetlink subsystem had to specify it's attribute count. However, in reality the attribute count depends on the message type within the subsystem, not the subsystem itself. This patch moves 'attr_count' from 'struct nfnetlink_subsys' into nfnl_callback to fix this. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: Core changes required by upcoming nfnetlink_queue codeHarald Welte1-6/+22
- split netfiler verdict in 16bit verdict and 16bit queue number - add 'queuenum' argument to nf_queue_outfn_t and its users ip[6]_queue - move NFNL_SUBSYS_ definitions from enum to #define - introduce autoloading for nfnetlink subsystem modules - add MODULE_ALIAS_NFNL_SUBSYS macro - add nf_unregister_queue_handlers() to register all handlers for a given nf_queue_outfn_t - add more verbose DEBUGP macro definition to nfnetlink.c - make nfnetlink_subsys_register fail if subsys already exists - add some more comments and debug statements to nfnetlink.c Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.Harald Welte1-1/+4
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module - Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink protocol - Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink subsystemHarald Welte1-0/+1
Add ctnetlink subsystem for userspace-access to ip_conntrack table. This allows reading and updating of existing entries, as well as creating new ones (and new expect's) via nfnetlink. Please note the 'strange' byte order: nfattr (tag+length) are in host byte order, while the payload is always guaranteed to be in network byte order. This allows a simple userspace process to encapsulate netlink messages into arch-independent udp packets by just processing/swapping the headers and not knowing anything about the actual payload. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29[NETFITLER]: Add nfnetlink layer.Harald Welte1-0/+343
Introduce "nfnetlink" (netfilter netlink) layer. This layer is used as transport layer for all userspace communication of the new upcoming netfilter subsystems, such as ctnetlink, nfnetlink_queue and some day even the mythical pkttables ;) Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>