The only usage of cifs_genl_ops[] is to assign its address to the ops
field in the genl_family struct, which is a pointer to const. Make it
const to allow the compiler to put it in read-only memory.
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
+ Set a handler for the witness notification messages received from the
userspace daemon.
+ Handle the resource state change notification. When the resource
becomes unavailable or available set the tcp status to
CifsNeedReconnect for all channels.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
+ Define the generic netlink family commands and message attributes to
communicate with the userspace daemon
+ The register and unregister commands are sent when connecting or
disconnecting a tree. The witness registration keeps a pointer to
the tcon and has the same lifetime.
+ Each registration has an id allocated by an IDR. This id is sent to the
userspace daemon in the register command, and will be included in the
notification messages from the userspace daemon to retrieve from the
IDR the matching registration.
+ The authentication information is bundled in the register message.
If kerberos is used the message just carries a flag.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Register a new generic netlink family to talk to the witness service
userspace daemon.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Cabrero <scabrero@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Rikard Falkeborn