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Eric W. Biederman f8572d8f2a sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
revmoed.

In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
to pass one.

Cc: "David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:05:06 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 89d69d2b75 net: make neigh_ops constant
These tables are never modified at runtime. Move to read-only
section.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 17:40:57 -07:00
roel kluin a3e8ee6820 ipv4: ARP neigh procfs buffer overflow
If arp_format_neigh_entry() can be called with n->dev->addr_len == 0, then a
write to hbuffer[-1] occurs.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-30 13:27:29 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman f8a68e752b Revert "ipv4: arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification"
This reverts commit 73ce7b01b4.

After discovering that we don't listen to gratuitious arps in 2.6.30
I tracked the failure down to this commit.

The patch makes absolutely no sense.  RFC2131 RFC3927 and RFC5227.
are all in agreement that an arp request with sip == 0 should be used
for the probe (to prevent learning) and an arp request with sip == tip
should be used for the gratitous announcement that people can learn
from.

It appears the author of the broken patch got those two cases confused
and modified the code to drop all gratuitous arp traffic.  Ouch!

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-30 19:47:08 -07:00
Eric Dumazet adf30907d6 net: skb->dst accessors
Define three accessors to get/set dst attached to a skb

struct dst_entry *skb_dst(const struct sk_buff *skb)

void skb_dst_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst)

void skb_dst_drop(struct sk_buff *skb)
This one should replace occurrences of :
dst_release(skb->dst)
skb->dst = NULL;

Delete skb->dst field

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 511c3f92ad net: skb->rtable accessor
Define skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb) accessor to get rtable from skb

Delete skb->rtable field

Setting rtable is not allowed, just set dst instead as rtable is an alias.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03 02:51:02 -07:00
Denys Fedoryshchenko 73ce7b01b4 ipv4: arp announce, arp_proxy and windows ip conflict verification
Windows (XP at least) hosts on boot, with configured static ip, performing 
address conflict detection, which is defined in RFC3927.
Here is quote of important information:

"
An ARP announcement is identical to the ARP Probe described above, 
except    that now the sender and target IP addresses are both set 
to the host's newly selected IPv4 address. 
"

But it same time this goes wrong with RFC5227.
"
The 'sender IP address' field MUST be set to all zeroes; this is to avoid
polluting ARP caches in other hosts on the same link in the case
where the address turns out to be already in use by another host.
"

When ARP proxy configured, it must not answer to both cases, because 
it is address conflict verification in any case. For Windows it is just 
causing to detect false "ip conflict". Already there is code for RFC5227, so 
just trivially we just check also if source ip == target ip.

Signed-off-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 16:02:07 -07:00
Neil Horman ead2ceb0ec Network Drop Monitor: Adding kfree_skb_clean for non-drops and modifying end-of-line points for skbs
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 include/linux/skbuff.h |    4 +++-
 net/core/datagram.c    |    2 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c      |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/ipv4/arp.c         |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/udp.c         |    2 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-13 12:09:28 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 7546dd97d2 net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better
locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 09640e6365 net: replace uses of __constant_{endian}
Base versions handle constant folding now.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
Ben Greear 8164f1b797 ipv4: Fix ARP behavior with many mac-vlans
Ben Greear wrote:
> I have 500 mac-vlans on a system talking to 500 other
> mac-vlans.  My problem is that the arp-table gets extremely
> huge because every time an arp-request comes in on all mac-vlans,
> a stale arp entry is added for each mac-vlan.  I have filtering
> turned on, but that doesn't help because the neigh_event_ns call
> below will cause a stale neighbor entry to be created regardless
> of whether a replay will be sent or not.
> Maybe the neigh_event code should be below the checks for dont_send,
> and only create check neigh_event_ns if we are !dont_send?

The attached patch makes it work much better for me.  The patch
will cause the code to NOT create a stale neighbor entry if we
are not going to respond to the ARP request.  The old code
*would* create a stale entry even if we are not going to respond.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16 19:19:38 -08:00
Jianjun Kong f4cca7ffb2 net: clean up net/ipv4/pararp.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 02:48:14 -08:00
Harvey Harrison 673d57e723 net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/ipv4/ net/ipv6/
Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-31 00:53:57 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt fdc9314cbe netfilter: replace old NF_ARP calls with NFPROTO_ARP
(Supplements: ee999d8b95)

NFPROTO_ARP actually has a different value from NF_ARP, so ensure all
callers use the new value so that packets _do_ get delivered to the
registered hooks.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-20 03:34:51 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov de0744af1f mib: add net to NET_INC_STATS_BH
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:31:16 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov ca12a1a443 inet: prepare net on the stack for NET accounting macros
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:28:42 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 76e6ebfb40 netns: add namespace parameter to rt_cache_flush
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-05 19:00:44 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 0b04082995 net: remove CVS keywords
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
from comments.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
Denis Cheng 51f82a2b12 net/ipv4/arp.c: Use common hex_asc helpers
Here the local hexbuf is a duplicate of global const char hex_asc from
lib/hexdump.c, except the hex letters' cases:

	const char hexbuf[] = "0123456789ABCDEF";

	const char hex_asc[] = "0123456789abcdef";

and here to print HW addresses, the hex cases are not significant.

Thanks to Harvey Harrison to introduce the hex_asc_hi/hex_asc_lo helpers.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-21 17:34:32 -07:00
Johannes Berg f5184d267c net: Allow netdevices to specify needed head/tailroom
This patch adds needed_headroom/needed_tailroom members to struct
net_device and updates many places that allocate sbks to use them. Not
all of them can be converted though, and I'm sure I missed some (I
mostly grepped for LL_RESERVED_SPACE)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-12 20:48:31 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki a7d632b6b4 [IPV4]: Use NIPQUAD_FMT to format ipv4 addresses.
And use %u to format port.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-14 04:09:00 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Denis V. Lunev ffc31d3d77 [NETNS]: /proc/net/arp namespacing.
Seqfile operation showing /proc/net/arp are already namespace
aware. All we need is to register this file for each namespace.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-24 15:28:43 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 49e8a279a1 [NETNS]: Process ARP in the context of the correct namespace.
Get namespace from a device and pass it to the routing engine. Enable
ARP packet processing and device notifiers after that.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-24 15:28:12 -07:00
Eric Dumazet ee6b967301 [IPV4]: Add 'rtable' field in struct sk_buff to alias 'dst' and avoid casts
(Anonymous) unions can help us to avoid ugly casts.

A common cast it the (struct rtable *)skb->dst one.

Defining an union like  :
union {
     struct dst_entry *dst;
     struct rtable *rtable;
};
permits to use skb->rtable in place.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-05 18:30:47 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 988b705077 [ARP]: Introduce the arp_hdr_len helper.
There are some place, that calculate the ARP header length. These
calculations are correct, but 
 a) some operate with "magic" constants,
 b) enlarge the code length (sometimes at the cost of coding style),
 c) are not informative from the first glance.

The proposal is to introduce a helper, that includes all the good
sides of these calculations.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-03 12:20:57 -08:00
David S. Miller 9ff5660746 Revert "[NDISC]: Fix race in generic address resolution"
This reverts commit 69cc64d8d9.

It causes recursive locking in IPV6 because unlike other
neighbour layer clients, it even needs neighbour cache
entries to send neighbour soliciation messages :-(

We'll have to find another way to fix this race.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-17 18:39:54 -08:00
David S. Miller 69cc64d8d9 [NDISC]: Fix race in generic address resolution
Frank Blaschka provided the bug report and the initial suggested fix
for this bug.  He also validated this version of this fix.

The problem is that the access to neigh->arp_queue is inconsistent, we
grab references when dropping the lock lock to call
neigh->ops->solicit() but this does not prevent other threads of
control from trying to send out that packet at the same time causing
corruptions because both code paths believe they have exclusive access
to the skb.

The best option seems to be to hold the write lock on neigh->lock
during the ->solicit() call.  I looked at all of the ndisc_ops
implementations and this seems workable.  The only case that needs
special care is the IPV4 ARP implementation of arp_solicit().  It
wants to take neigh->lock as a reader to protect the header entry in
neigh->ha during the emission of the soliciation.  We can simply
remove the read lock calls to take care of that since holding the lock
as a writer at the caller providers a superset of the protection
afforded by the existing read locking.

The rest of the ->solicit() implementations don't care whether the
neigh is locked or not.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-12 17:54:17 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt abfdf1c489 [NETFILTER]: ebtables: remove casts, use consts
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:33 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev f206351a50 [NETNS]: Add namespace parameter to ip_route_output_key.
Needed to propagate it down to the ip_route_output_flow.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:11:07 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 39a6d06300 [NETNS]: Process inet_confirm_addr in the correct namespace.
inet_confirm_addr can be called with NULL in_dev from arp_ignore iff
scope is RT_SCOPE_LINK.

Lets always pass the device and check for RT_SCOPE_LINK scope inside
inet_confirm_addr. This let us take network namespace from in_device a
need for an additional argument.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:13 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 9bd85e3264 [IPV4]: Remove extra argument from arp_ignore.
arp_ignore has two arguments: dev & in_dev. dev is used for
inet_confirm_addr calling only.

inet_confirm_addr, in turn, either gets in_dev from the device passed
or iterates over all network devices if the device passed is NULL. It
seems logical to directly pass in_dev into inet_confirm_addr.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:12 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 2db82b534b [NETNS]: Make arp code network namespace consistent.
Some calls in the arp.c have network namespace as an argument. Getting
init_net inside these functions is simply inconsistent. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:08 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev a79878f00d [ARP]: Move inet_addr_type call after simple error checks in arp_contructor.
The neighbour entry will be destroyed in the case of error, so it is
pointless to perform constly routing table lookup in this case.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:08 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6b175b26c1 [NETNS]: Add netns parameter to inet_(dev_)add_type.
The patch extends the inet_addr_type and inet_dev_addr_type with the
network namespace pointer. That allows to access the different tables
relatively to the network namespace.

The modification of the signature function is reported in all the
callers of the inet_addr_type using the pointer to the well known
init_net.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:27 -08:00
Rami Rosen cb7928a528 [IPV4]: Remove unsupported DNAT (RTCF_NAT and RTCF_NAT) in IPV4
- The DNAT (Destination NAT) is not implemented in IPV4.

- This patch remove the code which checks these flags
in net/ipv4/arp.c and net/ipv4/route.c.

The RTCF_NAT and RTCF_NAT should stay in the header (linux/in_route.h)
because they are used in DECnet.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:07 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 426b5303eb [NETNS]: Modify the neighbour table code so it handles multiple network namespaces
I'm actually surprised at how much was involved.  At first glance it
appears that the neighbour table data structures are already split by
network device so all that should be needed is to modify the user
interface commands to filter the set of neighbours by the network
namespace of their devices.

However a couple things turned up while I was reading through the
code.  The proxy neighbour table allows entries with no network
device, and the neighbour parms are per network device (except for the
defaults) so they now need a per network namespace default.

So I updated the two structures (which surprised me) with their very
own network namespace parameter.  Updated the relevant lookup and
destroy routines with a network namespace parameter and modified the
code that interacts with users to filter out neighbour table entries
for devices of other namespaces.

I'm a little concerned that we can modify and display the global table
configuration and from all network namespaces.  But this appears good
enough for now.

I keep thinking modifying the neighbour table to have per network
namespace instances of each table type would should be cleaner.  The
hash table is already dynamically sized so there are it is not a
limiter.  The default parameter would be straight forward to take care
of.  However when I look at the how the network table is built and
used I still find some assumptions that there is only a single
neighbour table for each type of table in the kernel.  The netlink
operations, neigh_seq_start, the non-core network users that call
neigh_lookup.  So while it might be doable it would require more
refactoring than my current approach of just doing a little extra
filtering in the code.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:03 -08:00
Joe Perches f97c1e0c6e [IPV4] net/ipv4: Use ipv4_is_<type>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:15 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 586f121152 [IPV4]: Switch users of ipv4_devconf(_all) to use the pernet one
These are scattered over the code, but almost all the
"critical" places already have the proper struct net
at hand except for snmp proc showing function and routing
rtnl handler.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:12 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 32e569b727 [IPV4]: Pass the net pointer to the arp_req_set_proxy()
This one will need to set the IPV4_DEVCONF_ALL(PROXY_ARP), but
there's no ways to get the net right in place, so we have to
pull one from the inet_ioctl's struct sock.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:58:09 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov f8b33fdfaf [ARP]: Consolidate some code in arp_req_set/delete_publc
The PROXY_ARP is set on devconfigs in a similar way in
both calls.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:38 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 46479b4329 [ARP]: Minus one level of ndentation in arp_req_delete
The same cleanup for deletion requests.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:38 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 43dc170117 [ARP]: Minus one level of indentation in arp_req_set
The ATF_PUBL requests are handled completely separate from
the others. Emphasize it with a separate function. This also
reduces the indentation level.

The same issue exists with the arp_delete_request, but
when I tried to make it in one patch diff produced completely
unreadable patch. So I split it into two, but they may be
done with one commit.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:37 -08:00
Rolf Manderscheid a9e527e3f9 IPoIB: improve IPv4/IPv6 to IB mcast mapping functions
An IPoIB subnet on an IB fabric that spans multiple IB subnets can't
use link-local scope in multicast GIDs.  The existing routines that
map IP/IPv6 multicast addresses into IB link-level addresses hard-code
the scope to link-local, and they also leave the partition key field
uninitialised.  This patch adds a parameter (the link-level broadcast
address) to the mapping routines, allowing them to initialise both the
scope and the P_Key appropriately, and fixes up the call sites.

The next step will be to add a way to configure the scope for an IPoIB
interface.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Manderscheid <rvm@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-01-25 14:15:37 -08:00
Mark Ryden e0260feddf [IPV4] ARP: Remove not used code
In arp_process() (net/ipv4/arp.c), there is unused code: definition
and assignment of tha (target hw address ).

Signed-off-by: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-19 23:38:11 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 3660019e5f [IPV4]: Remove bogus ifdef mess in arp_process
The #ifdef's in arp_process() were not only a mess, they were also wrong 
in the CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=n and (CONFIG_NETDEV_1000=y or 
CONFIG_NETDEV_10000=y) cases.

Since they are not required this patch removes them.

Also removed are some #ifdef's around #include's that caused compile 
errors after this change.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-11-26 23:17:53 +08:00
Jonas Danielsson b4a9811c42 [ARP]: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0
Fix arp reply when received arp probe with sender ip 0.

Send arp reply with target ip address 0.0.0.0 and target hardware
address set to hardware address of requester. Previously sent reply
with target ip address and target hardware address set to same as
source fields.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Danielsson <the.sator@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-20 17:38:16 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov cf7732e4cc [NET]: Make core networking code use seq_open_private
This concerns the ipv4 and ipv6 code mostly, but also the netlink
and unix sockets.

The netlink code is an example of how to use the __seq_open_private()
call - it saves the net namespace on this private.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:55:33 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 3b04ddde02 [NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class
not the device instance, make them into a separate object and
save memory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:52 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 0c4e85813d [NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and
fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is
an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space
was available,(ie -N bytes).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:50 -07:00