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Wei Yongjun 22ca904ad7 genetlink: fix error return code in genl_register_family()
Fix to return a negative error code from the idr_alloc() error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Also fix the return value check of idr_alloc() since idr_alloc return
negative errors on failure, not zero.

Fixes: 2ae0f17df1 ("genetlink: use idr to track families")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-11-01 12:13:13 -04:00
pravin shelar 0e82c76359 genetlink: Fix generic netlink family unregister
This patch fixes a typo in unregister operation.

Following crash is fixed by this patch. It can be easily reproduced
by repeating modprobe and rmmod module that uses genetlink.

[  261.446686] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa0264088
[  261.448921] IP: [<ffffffff813cb70e>] strcmp+0xe/0x30
[  261.450494] PGD 1c09067
[  261.451266] PUD 1c0a063
[  261.452091] PMD 8068d5067
[  261.452525] PTE 0
[  261.453164]
[  261.453618] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  261.454577] Modules linked in: openvswitch(+) ...
[  261.480753] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813cb70e>]  [<ffffffff813cb70e>] strcmp+0xe/0x30
[  261.483069] RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c0bc28  EFLAGS: 00010282
[  261.510145] Call Trace:
[  261.510896]  [<ffffffff816f10ca>] genl_family_find_byname+0x5a/0x70
[  261.512819]  [<ffffffff816f2319>] genl_register_family+0xb9/0x630
[  261.514805]  [<ffffffffa02840bc>] dp_init+0xbc/0x120 [openvswitch]
[  261.518268]  [<ffffffff8100217d>] do_one_initcall+0x3d/0x160
[  261.525041]  [<ffffffff811808a9>] do_init_module+0x60/0x1f1
[  261.526754]  [<ffffffff8110687f>] load_module+0x22af/0x2860
[  261.530144]  [<ffffffff81107026>] SYSC_finit_module+0x96/0xd0
[  261.531901]  [<ffffffff8110707e>] SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10
[  261.533605]  [<ffffffff8100391e>] do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x180
[  261.535284]  [<ffffffff817c2faf>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
[  261.546512] RIP  [<ffffffff813cb70e>] strcmp+0xe/0x30
[  261.550198] ---[ end trace 76505a814dd68770 ]---

Fixes: 2ae0f17df1 ("genetlink: use idr to track families").

Reported-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-29 20:58:15 -04:00
Johannes Berg 56989f6d85 genetlink: mark families as __ro_after_init
Now genl_register_family() is the only thing (other than the
users themselves, perhaps, but I didn't find any doing that)
writing to the family struct.

In all families that I found, genl_register_family() is only
called from __init functions (some indirectly, in which case
I've add __init annotations to clarifly things), so all can
actually be marked __ro_after_init.

This protects the data structure from accidental corruption.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-27 16:16:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg 2ae0f17df1 genetlink: use idr to track families
Since generic netlink family IDs are small integers, allocated
densely, IDR is an ideal match for lookups. Replace the existing
hand-written hash-table with IDR for allocation and lookup.

This lets the families only be written to once, during register,
since the list_head can be removed and removal of a family won't
cause any writes.

It also slightly reduces the code size (by about 1.3k on x86-64).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-27 16:16:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg 489111e5c2 genetlink: statically initialize families
Instead of providing macros/inline functions to initialize
the families, make all users initialize them statically and
get rid of the macros.

This reduces the kernel code size by about 1.6k on x86-64
(with allyesconfig).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-27 16:16:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg a07ea4d994 genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs
Static family IDs have never really been used, the only
use case was the workaround I introduced for those users
that assumed their family ID was also their multicast
group ID.

Additionally, because static family IDs would never be
reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively
low ID would only work for built-in families that can be
registered immediately after generic netlink is started,
which is basically only the control family (apart from
the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so
it would reserve those IDs)

Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and
luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move
those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get
rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-27 16:16:09 -04:00
Johannes Berg c90c39dab3 genetlink: introduce and use genl_family_attrbuf()
This helper function allows family implementations to access
their family's attrbuf. This gets rid of the attrbuf usage
in families, and also adds locking validation, since it's not
valid to use the attrbuf with parallel_ops or outside of the
dumpit callback.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-10-27 16:16:08 -04:00
stephen hemminger 12d8de6d95 net: make genetlink ctrl ops const
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-01 14:09:00 -07:00
Florian Westphal 263ea09084 Revert "genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for unicast message allocation"
This reverts commit bb9b18fb55 ("genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for
unicast message allocation")'.

Nothing wrong with it; its no longer needed since this was only for
mmapped netlink support.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-18 11:42:19 -05:00
Tycho Andersen 4a92602aa1 openvswitch: allow management from inside user namespaces
Operations with the GENL_ADMIN_PERM flag fail permissions checks because
this flag means we call netlink_capable, which uses the init user ns.

Instead, let's introduce a new flag, GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM for operations
which should be allowed inside a user namespace.

The motivation for this is to be able to run openvswitch in unprivileged
containers. I've tested this and it seems to work, but I really have no
idea about the security consequences of this patch, so thoughts would be
much appreciated.

v2: use the GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM flag instead of a check in each function
v3: use separate ifs for UNS_ADMIN_PERM and ADMIN_PERM, instead of one
    massive one

Reported-by: James Page <james.page@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
CC: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
CC: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-02-11 09:53:19 -05:00
David S. Miller b8e429a2fe genetlink: Fix off-by-one in genl_allocate_reserve_groups()
The bug fix for adding n_groups to the computation forgot
to adjust ">=" to ">" to keep the condition correct.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-13 10:28:06 -05:00
David S. Miller ddb5388ffd Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux 2016-01-13 00:21:27 -05:00
Matti Vaittinen ccdf6ce6a8 net: netlink: Fix multicast group storage allocation for families with more than one groups
Multicast groups are stored in global buffer. Check for needed buffer size
incorrectly compares buffer size to first id for family. This means that
for families with more than one mcast id one may allocate too small buffer
and end up writing rest of the groups to some unallocated memory. Fix the
buffer size check to compare allocated space to last mcast id for the
family.

Tested on ARM using kernel 3.14

Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-01-12 16:40:15 -05:00
Tom Herbert fc9e50f5a5 netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump
The start callback allows the caller to set up a context for the
dump callbacks. Presumably, the context can then be destroyed in
the done callback.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-12-15 23:25:20 -05:00
Yaowei Bai 61d03535e4 net/netlink: lockdep_genl_is_held can be boolean
This patch makes lockdep_genl_is_held return bool to improve
readability due to this particular function only using either
one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-10-09 07:48:59 -07:00
Jiri Benc 92c14d9b5e genetlink: simplify genl_notify
The genl_notify function has too many arguments for no real reason - all
callers use genl_info to get them anyway. Just pass the genl_info down to
genl_notify.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-24 12:25:23 -07:00
David S. Miller 95f873f2ff Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sx-sdb.dts
	net/sched/cls_bpf.c

Two simple sets of overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-27 16:59:56 -08:00
Johannes Berg 053c095a82 netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void
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>
2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
Johannes Berg ee1c244219 genetlink: synchronize socket closing and family removal
In addition to the problem Jeff Layton reported, I looked at the code
and reproduced the same warning by subscribing and removing the genl
family with a socket still open. This is a fairly tricky race which
originates in the fact that generic netlink allows the family to go
away while sockets are still open - unlike regular netlink which has
a module refcount for every open socket so in general this cannot be
triggered.

Trying to resolve this issue by the obvious locking isn't possible as
it will result in deadlocks between unregistration and group unbind
notification (which incidentally lockdep doesn't find due to the home
grown locking in the netlink table.)

To really resolve this, introduce a "closing socket" reference counter
(for generic netlink only, as it's the only affected family) in the
core netlink code and use that in generic netlink to wait for all the
sockets that are being closed at the same time as a generic netlink
family is removed.

This fixes the race that when a socket is closed, it will should call
the unbind, but if the family is removed at the same time the unbind
will not find it, leading to the warning. The real problem though is
that in this case the unbind could actually find a new family that is
registered to have a multicast group with the same ID, and call its
mcast_unbind() leading to confusing.

Also remove the warning since it would still trigger, but is now no
longer a problem.

This also moves the code in af_netlink.c to before unreferencing the
module to avoid having the same problem in the normal non-genl case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-16 17:04:25 -05:00
Johannes Berg 5ad6300524 genetlink: disallow subscribing to unknown mcast groups
Jeff Layton reported that he could trigger the multicast unbind warning
in generic netlink using trinity. I originally thought it was a race
condition between unregistering the generic netlink family and closing
the socket, but there's a far simpler explanation: genetlink currently
allows subscribing to groups that don't (yet) exist, and the warning is
triggered when unsubscribing again while the group still doesn't exist.

Originally, I had a warning in the subscribe case and accepted it out of
userspace API concerns, but the warning was of course wrong and removed
later.

However, I now think that allowing userspace to subscribe to groups that
don't exist is wrong and could possibly become a security problem:
Consider a (new) genetlink family implementing a permission check in
the mcast_bind() function similar to the like the audit code does today;
it would be possible to bypass the permission check by guessing the ID
and subscribing to the group it exists. This is only possible in case a
family like that would be dynamically loaded, but it doesn't seem like a
huge stretch, for example wireless may be loaded when you plug in a USB
device.

To avoid this reject such subscription attempts.

If this ends up causing userspace issues we may need to add a workaround
in af_netlink to deny such requests but not return an error.

Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-16 17:04:24 -05:00
David S. Miller dc97a1a947 genetlink: A genl_bind() to an out-of-range multicast group should not WARN().
Users can request to bind to arbitrary multicast groups, so warning
when the requested group number is out of range is not appropriate.

And with the warning removed, and the 'err' variable properly given
an initial value, we can remove 'found' altogether.

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-29 16:31:49 -05:00
Johannes Berg 023e2cfa36 netlink/genetlink: pass network namespace to bind/unbind
Netlink families can exist in multiple namespaces, and for the most
part multicast subscriptions are per network namespace. Thus it only
makes sense to have bind/unbind notifications per network namespace.

To achieve this, pass the network namespace of a given client socket
to the bind/unbind functions.

Also do this in generic netlink, and there also make sure that any
bind for multicast groups that only exist in init_net is rejected.
This isn't really a problem if it is accepted since a client in a
different namespace will never receive any notifications from such
a group, but it can confuse the family if not rejected (it's also
possible to silently (without telling the family) accept it, but it
would also have to be ignored on unbind so families that take any
kind of action on bind/unbind won't do unnecessary work for invalid
clients like that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-27 03:07:50 -05:00
Johannes Berg c380d9a7af genetlink: pass multicast bind/unbind to families
In order to make the newly fixed multicast bind/unbind
functionality in generic netlink, pass them down to the
appropriate family.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-27 02:20:23 -05:00
Denis ChengRq 2f91abd451 genetlink: remove superfluous assignment
the local variable ops and n_ops were just read out from family,
and not changed, hence no need to assign back.

Validation functions should operate on const parameters and not
change anything.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-02 10:36:18 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 90f62cf30a net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages
It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-24 13:44:54 -04:00
David S. Miller 39b6b2992f Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jesse/openvswitch
Jesse Gross says:

====================
[GIT net-next] Open vSwitch

Open vSwitch changes for net-next/3.14. Highlights are:
 * Performance improvements in the mechanism to get packets to userspace
   using memory mapped netlink and skb zero copy where appropriate.
 * Per-cpu flow stats in situations where flows are likely to be shared
   across CPUs. Standard flow stats are used in other situations to save
   memory and allocation time.
 * A handful of code cleanups and rationalization.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-06 19:48:38 -05:00
Thomas Graf bb9b18fb55 genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for unicast message allocation
Allocates a new sk_buff large enough to cover the specified payload
plus required Netlink headers. Will check receiving socket for
memory mapped i/o capability and use it if enabled. Will fall back
to non-mapped skb if message size exceeds the frame size of the ring.

Signed-of-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2014-01-06 15:51:53 -08:00
Johannes Berg 5e53e689b7 genetlink/pmcraid: use proper genetlink multicast API
The pmcraid driver is abusing the genetlink API and is using its
family ID as the multicast group ID, which is invalid and may
belong to somebody else (and likely will.)

Make it use the correct API, but since this may already be used
as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID for this code and also
reserve that group ID to not break userspace assumptions.

My previous patch broke event delivery in the driver as I missed
that it wasn't using the right API and forgot to update it later
in my series.

While changing this, I noticed that the genetlink code could use
the static group ID instead of a strcmp(), so also do that for
the VFS_DQUOT family.

Cc: Anil Ravindranath <anil_ravindranath@pmc-sierra.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-28 18:26:30 -05:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 0f0e2159c0 genetlink: Fix uninitialized variable in genl_validate_assign_mc_groups()
net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_validate_assign_mc_groups’:
net/netlink/genetlink.c:217: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this
function

Commit 2a94fe48f3 ("genetlink: make multicast
groups const, prevent abuse") split genl_register_mc_group() in multiple
functions, but dropped the initialization of err.

Initialize err to zero to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-28 18:24:07 -05:00
Johannes Berg 220815a966 genetlink: fix genlmsg_multicast() bug
Unfortunately, I introduced a tremendously stupid bug into
genlmsg_multicast() when doing all those multicast group
changes: it adjusts the group number, but then passes it
to genlmsg_multicast_netns() which does that again.

Somehow, my tests failed to catch this, so add a warning
into genlmsg_multicast_netns() and remove the offending
group ID adjustment.

Also add a warning to the similar code in other functions
so people who misuse them are more loudly warned.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-21 13:09:43 -05:00
Johannes Berg 2a94fe48f3 genetlink: make multicast groups const, prevent abuse
Register generic netlink multicast groups as an array with
the family and give them contiguous group IDs. Then instead
of passing the global group ID to the various functions that
send messages, pass the ID relative to the family - for most
families that's just 0 because the only have one group.

This avoids the list_head and ID in each group, adding a new
field for the mcast group ID offset to the family.

At the same time, this allows us to prevent abusing groups
again like the quota and dropmon code did, since we can now
check that a family only uses a group it owns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19 16:39:06 -05:00
Johannes Berg 68eb55031d genetlink: pass family to functions using groups
This doesn't really change anything, but prepares for the
next patch that will change the APIs to pass the group ID
within the family, rather than the global group ID.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19 16:39:06 -05:00
Johannes Berg c2ebb90846 genetlink: remove family pointer from genl_multicast_group
There's no reason to have the family pointer there since it
can just be passed internally where needed, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19 16:39:06 -05:00
Johannes Berg 06fb555a27 genetlink: remove genl_unregister_mc_group()
There are no users of this API remaining, and we'll soon
change group registration to be static (like ops are now)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19 16:39:06 -05:00
Johannes Berg 2ecf7536b2 quota/genetlink: use proper genetlink multicast APIs
The quota code is abusing the genetlink API and is using
its family ID as the multicast group ID, which is invalid
and may belong to somebody else (and likely will.)

Make the quota code use the correct API, but since this
is already used as-is by userspace, reserve a family ID
for this code and also reserve that group ID to not break
userspace assumptions.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
Johannes Berg e5dcecba01 drop_monitor/genetlink: use proper genetlink multicast APIs
The drop monitor code is abusing the genetlink API and is
statically using the generic netlink multicast group 1, even
if that group belongs to somebody else (which it invariably
will, since it's not reserved.)

Make the drop monitor code use the proper APIs to reserve a
group ID, but also reserve the group id 1 in generic netlink
code to preserve the userspace API. Since drop monitor can
be a module, don't clear the bit for it on unregistration.

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
Johannes Berg c53ed74236 genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops()
As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops()
a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the
macro, this is a little safer.

The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in
that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the
family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and
code (once mcast groups are handled differently.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
Johannes Berg 029b234fb3 genetlink: rename shadowed variable
Sparse pointed out that the new flags variable I had added
shadowed an existing one, rename the new one to avoid that,
making the code clearer.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-18 15:34:00 -05:00
Johannes Berg 568508aa07 genetlink: unify registration functions
Now that the ops assignment is just two variables rather than a
long list iteration etc., there's no reason to separately export
__genl_register_family() and __genl_register_family_with_ops().

Unify the two functions into __genl_register_family() and make
genl_register_family_with_ops() call it after assigning the ops.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-15 20:50:23 -05:00
Johannes Berg f84f771d94 genetlink: allow making ops const
Allow making the ops array const by not modifying the ops
flags on registration but rather only when ops are sent
out in the family information.

No users are updated yet except for the pre_doit/post_doit
calls in wireless (the only ones that exist now.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14 17:10:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg d91824c08f genetlink: register family ops as array
Instead of using a linked list, use an array. This reduces
the data size needed by the users of genetlink, for example
in wireless (net/wireless/nl80211.c) on 64-bit it frees up
over 1K of data space.

Remove the attempted sending of CTRL_CMD_NEWOPS ctrl event
since genl_ctrl_event(CTRL_CMD_NEWOPS, ...) only returns
-EINVAL anyway, therefore no such event could ever be sent.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14 17:10:41 -05:00
Johannes Berg 3686ec5e84 genetlink: remove genl_register_ops/genl_unregister_ops
genl_register_ops() is still needed for internal registration,
but is no longer available to users of the API.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-14 17:10:40 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar 33c6b1f6b1 genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.
netlink dump operations take module as parameter to hold
reference for entire netlink dump duration.
Currently it holds ref only on genl module which is not correct
when we use ops registered to genl from another module.
Following patch adds module pointer to genl_ops so that netlink
can hold ref count on it.

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-28 17:19:17 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar 9b96309c5b genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.
In case of genl-family with parallel ops off, dumpif() callback
is expected to run under genl_lock, But commit def3117493
(genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.) changed this behaviour
where only first dumpit() op was called under genl-lock.
For subsequent dump, only nlk->cb_lock was taken.
Following patch fixes it by defining locked dumpit() and done()
callback which takes care of genl-locking.

CC: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
CC: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-28 17:19:17 -04:00
Johannes Berg 9d47b38056 Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"
This reverts commit 58ad436fcf.

It turns out that the change introduced a potential deadlock
by causing a locking dependency with netlink's cb_mutex. I
can't seem to find a way to resolve this without doing major
changes to the locking, so revert this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-22 13:24:02 -07:00
Johannes Berg 58ad436fcf genetlink: fix family dump race
When dumping generic netlink families, only the first dump call
is locked with genl_lock(), which protects the list of families,
and thus subsequent calls can access the data without locking,
racing against family addition/removal. This can cause a crash.
Fix it - the locking needs to be conditional because the first
time around it's already locked.

A similar bug was reported to me on an old kernel (3.4.47) but
the exact scenario that happened there is no longer possible,
on those kernels the first round wasn't locked either. Looking
at the current code I found the race described above, which had
also existed on the old kernel.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-13 00:57:06 -07:00
Pablo Neira e1ee3673a8 genetlink: fix usage of NLM_F_EXCL or NLM_F_REPLACE
Currently, it is not possible to use neither NLM_F_EXCL nor
NLM_F_REPLACE from genetlink. This is due to this checking in
genl_family_rcv_msg:

	if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP)

NLM_F_DUMP is NLM_F_MATCH|NLM_F_ROOT. Thus, if NLM_F_EXCL or
NLM_F_REPLACE flag is set, genetlink believes that you're
requesting a dump and it calls the .dumpit callback.

The solution that I propose is to refine this checking to
make it stricter:

	if ((nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) == NLM_F_DUMP)

And given the combination NLM_F_REPLACE and NLM_F_EXCL does
not make sense to me, it removes the ambiguity.

There was a patch that tried to fix this some time ago (0ab03c2
netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite) but it
tried to resolve this ambiguity in *all* existing netlink subsystems,
not only genetlink. That patch was reverted since it broke iproute2,
which is using NLM_F_ROOT to request the dump of the routing cache.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-30 16:43:19 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka c74f2b2678 genetlink: release cb_lock before requesting additional module
Requesting external module with cb_lock taken can result in
the deadlock like showed below:

[ 2458.111347] Showing all locks held in the system:
[ 2458.111347] 1 lock held by NetworkManager/582:
[ 2458.111347]  #0:  (cb_lock){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8162bc79>] genl_rcv+0x19/0x40
[ 2458.111347] 1 lock held by modprobe/603:
[ 2458.111347]  #0:  (cb_lock){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8162baa5>] genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30

[ 2461.579457] SysRq : Show Blocked State
[ 2461.580103]   task                        PC stack   pid father
[ 2461.580103] NetworkManager  D ffff880034b84500  4040   582      1 0x00000080
[ 2461.580103]  ffff8800197ff720 0000000000000046 00000000001d5340 ffff8800197fffd8
[ 2461.580103]  ffff8800197fffd8 00000000001d5340 ffff880019631700 7fffffffffffffff
[ 2461.580103]  ffff8800197ff880 ffff8800197ff878 ffff880019631700 ffff880019631700
[ 2461.580103] Call Trace:
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817355f9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81731ad1>] schedule_timeout+0x1c1/0x360
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e69eb>] ? mark_held_locks+0xbb/0x140
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817377ac>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x50
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e6b6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81736398>] wait_for_completion_killable+0xe8/0x170
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810b7fa0>] ? wake_up_state+0x20/0x20
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81095825>] call_usermodehelper_exec+0x1a5/0x210
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817362ed>] ? wait_for_completion_killable+0x3d/0x170
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81095cc3>] __request_module+0x1b3/0x370
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e6b6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162c5c9>] ctrl_getfamily+0x159/0x190
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162d8a4>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x1f4/0x2e0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162d990>] ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x2e0/0x2e0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162da1e>] genl_rcv_msg+0x8e/0xd0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162b729>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xa9/0xc0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162bc88>] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162ad6d>] netlink_unicast+0xdd/0x190
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162b149>] netlink_sendmsg+0x329/0x750
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815db849>] sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xd0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb58f>] ? local_clock+0x5f/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e96e8>] ? lock_release_non_nested+0x308/0x350
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815dbc6e>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x39e/0x3b0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810565af>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x2f/0x50
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810218b9>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb2bd>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1d/0x80
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb448>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e33ad>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb58f>] ? local_clock+0x5f/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810e3f7f>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.28+0xf/0x1a0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8120fec9>] ? fget_light+0xf9/0x510
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8120fe0c>] ? fget_light+0x3c/0x510
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815dd1d2>] __sys_sendmsg+0x42/0x80
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff815dd222>] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81741ad9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 2461.580103] modprobe        D ffff88000f2c8000  4632   603    602 0x00000080
[ 2461.580103]  ffff88000f04fba8 0000000000000046 00000000001d5340 ffff88000f04ffd8
[ 2461.580103]  ffff88000f04ffd8 00000000001d5340 ffff8800377d4500 ffff8800377d4500
[ 2461.580103]  ffffffff81d0b260 ffffffff81d0b268 ffffffff00000000 ffffffff81d0b2b0
[ 2461.580103] Call Trace:
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff817355f9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81736d4d>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0xed/0x1a0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810bb200>] ? update_cpu_load_active+0x10/0xb0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8137b473>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8173492d>] ? down_write+0x9d/0xb2
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162baa5>] ? genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162baa5>] genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162cbb3>] genl_register_family+0x53/0x1f0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8162d650>] genl_register_family_with_ops+0x20/0x80
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa017fe84>] nl80211_init+0x24/0xf0 [cfg80211]
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffffa01dc043>] cfg80211_init+0x43/0xdb [cfg80211]
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810020fa>] do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x1b0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff8105cb93>] ? set_memory_nx+0x43/0x50
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810f75af>] load_module+0x1c6f/0x27f0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810f2c90>] ? store_uevent+0x40/0x40
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff810f82c6>] SyS_finit_module+0x86/0xb0
[ 2461.580103]  [<ffffffff81741ad9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 2461.580103] Sched Debug Version: v0.10, 3.11.0-0.rc1.git4.1.fc20.x86_64 #1

Problem start to happen after adding net-pf-16-proto-16-family-nl80211
alias name to cfg80211 module by below commit (though that commit
itself is perfectly fine):

commit fb4e156886
Author: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 28 16:22:06 2013 -0700

    nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211

Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-27 22:19:20 -07:00
Wei Yongjun 50754d2188 genetlink: fix possible memory leak in genl_family_rcv_msg()
'attrbuf' is malloced in genl_family_rcv_msg() when family->maxattr &&
family->parallel_ops, thus should be freed before leaving from the error
handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak.

Introduced by commit def3117493
(genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-26 23:25:39 -04:00
Pravin B Shelar def3117493 genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.
All genl callbacks are serialized by genl-mutex. This can become
bottleneck in multi threaded case.
Following patch adds an parameter to genl_family so that a
particular family can get concurrent netlink callback without
genl_lock held.
New rw-sem is used to protect genl callback from genl family unregister.
in case of parallel_ops genl-family read-lock is taken for callbacks and
write lock is taken for register or unregistration for any family.
In case of locked genl family semaphore and gel-mutex is locked for
any openration.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-25 01:43:15 -04:00
Masatake YAMATO f1e79e2080 genetlink: trigger BUG_ON if a group name is too long
Trigger BUG_ON if a group name is longer than GENL_NAMSIZ.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-20 12:05:51 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman 15e473046c netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
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>
2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 9f00d9776b netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create
This patch defines netlink_kernel_create as a wrapper function of
__netlink_kernel_create to hide the struct module *me parameter
(which seems to be THIS_MODULE in all existing netlink subsystems).

Suggested by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08 18:46:30 -04:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 9785e10aed netlink: kill netlink_set_nonroot
Replace netlink_set_nonroot by one new field `flags' in
struct netlink_kernel_cfg that is passed to netlink_kernel_create.

This patch also renames NL_NONROOT_* to NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_* since
now the flags field in nl_table is generic (so we can add more
flags if needed in the future).

Also adjust all callers in the net-next tree to use these flags
instead of netlink_set_nonroot.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08 18:45:27 -04:00
WANG Cong 320f5ea0ce genetlink: define lockdep_genl_is_held() when CONFIG_LOCKDEP
lockdep_is_held() is defined when CONFIG_LOCKDEP, not CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-24 00:01:30 -07:00
Ben Hutchings 2c53040f01 net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions
Fix incorrect start markers, wrapped summary lines, missing section
breaks, incorrect separators, and some name mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso a31f2d17b3 netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_create
This patch adds the following structure:

struct netlink_kernel_cfg {
        unsigned int    groups;
        void            (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb);
        struct mutex    *cb_mutex;
};

That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations
for netlink kernel sockets.

I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the
existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still
left in the original interface.

That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows
easy extensibility of this interface in the future.

This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29 16:46:02 -07:00
Neil Horman e9412c3708 genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module alias
Generic netlink searches for -type- formatted aliases when requesting a module to
fulfill a protocol request (i.e. net-pf-16-proto-16-type-<x>, where x is a type
value).  However generic netlink protocols have no well defined type numbers,
they have string names.  Modify genl_ctrl_getfamily to request an alias in the
format net-pf-16-proto-16-family-<x> instead, where x is a generic string, and
add a macro that builds on the previously added MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME
macro to allow modules to specifify those generic strings.

Note, l2tp previously hacked together an net-pf-16-proto-16-type-l2tp alias
using the MODULE_ALIAS macro, with these updates we can convert that to use the
PROTO_NAME macro.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-05-29 22:33:56 -04:00
David S. Miller 444653f696 genetlink: Stop using NLA_PUT*().
These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error
prone and make code hard to audit.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-01 18:43:25 -04:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso 80d326fab5 netlink: add netlink_dump_control structure for netlink_dump_start()
Davem considers that the argument list of this interface is getting
out of control. This patch tries to address this issue following
his proposal:

struct netlink_dump_control c = { .dump = dump, .done = done, ... };

netlink_dump_start(..., &c);

Suggested by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-02-26 14:10:06 -05:00
Denys Vlasenko a46621a3a8 net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.
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>
2012-01-30 15:22:06 -05:00
Linus Torvalds c49c41a413 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security
* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security:
  capabilities: remove __cap_full_set definition
  security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
  ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat
  capabilities: remove task_ns_* functions
  capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call
  capabilities: style only - move capable below ns_capable
  capabilites: introduce new has_ns_capabilities_noaudit
  capabilities: call has_ns_capability from has_capability
  capabilities: remove all _real_ interfaces
  capabilities: introduce security_capable_noaudit
  capabilities: reverse arguments to security_capable
  capabilities: remove the task from capable LSM hook entirely
  selinux: sparse fix: fix several warnings in the security server cod
  selinux: sparse fix: fix warnings in netlink code
  selinux: sparse fix: eliminate warnings for selinuxfs
  selinux: sparse fix: declare selinux_disable() in security.h
  selinux: sparse fix: move selinux_complete_init
  selinux: sparse fix: make selinux_secmark_refcount static
  SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()

Manually fix up a semantic mis-merge wrt security_netlink_recv():

 - the interface was removed in commit fd77846152 ("security: remove
   the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()")

 - a new user of it appeared in commit a38f7907b9 ("crypto: Add
   userspace configuration API")

causing no automatic merge conflict, but Eric Paris pointed out the
issue.
2012-01-14 18:36:33 -08:00
Eric Paris fd77846152 security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective
capabilities from the skb that was being received.  Today we instead get
the capabilities from the current task.  This has rendered the entire
purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the
capable() call.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-05 18:53:01 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger fa84309533 genetlink: add auto module loading
When testing L2TP support, I discovered that the l2tp module is not autoloaded
as are other netlink interfaces. There is because of lack of hook in genetlink to call
request_module and load the module.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-28 13:48:55 -05:00
stephen hemminger b57ef81ff8 netlink: af_netlink cleanup (v2)
Don't inline functions that cover several lines, and do inline
the trivial ones. Also make some arguments const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-22 22:37:19 -05:00
Pravin B Shelar 86b1309c7e genetlink: Add lockdep_genl_is_held().
Open vSwitch uses genl_mutex locking to protect datapath
data-structures like flow-table, flow-actions. Following patch adds
lockdep_genl_is_held() which is used for rcu annotation to prove
locking.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03 09:35:07 -08:00
Pravin B Shelar 263ba61d3b genetlink: Add genl_notify()
Open vSwitch uses Generic Netlink interface for communication
between userspace and kernel module. genl_notify() is used
for sending notification back to userspace.

genl_notify() is analogous to rtnl_notify() but uses genl_sock
instead of rtnl.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03 09:35:05 -08:00
Greg Rose c7ac8679be rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size
The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to
a single page.  This is not enough for additional interface info
available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in
which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately
40 VFs were created per interface.

Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will
calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate
enough data to satisfy the request.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2011-06-09 20:38:07 -07:00
David S. Miller b8f3ab4290 Revert "netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite"
This reverts commit 0ab03c2b14.

It breaks several things including the avahi daemon.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-19 13:34:20 -08:00
Jan Engelhardt 0ab03c2b14 netlink: test for all flags of the NLM_F_DUMP composite
Due to NLM_F_DUMP is composed of two bits, NLM_F_ROOT | NLM_F_MATCH,
when doing "if (x & NLM_F_DUMP)", it tests for _either_ of the bits
being set. Because NLM_F_MATCH's value overlaps with NLM_F_EXCL,
non-dump requests with NLM_F_EXCL set are mistaken as dump requests.

Substitute the condition to test for _all_ bits being set.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-09 16:25:03 -08:00
Johannes Berg ff4c92d85c genetlink: introduce pre_doit/post_doit hooks
Each family may have some amount of boilerplate
locking code that applies to most, or even all,
commands.

This allows a family to handle such things in
a more generic way, by allowing it to
 a) include private flags in each operation
 b) specify a pre_doit hook that is called,
    before an operation's doit() callback and
    may return an error directly,
 c) specify a post_doit hook that can undo
    locking or similar things done by pre_doit,
    and finally
 d) include two private pointers in each info
    struct passed between all these operations
    including doit(). (It's two because I'll
    need two in nl80211 -- can be extended.)

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>
2010-10-05 13:35:30 -04:00
Changli Gao 652c671746 genetlink: use genl_register_family_with_ops()
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-26 21:00:10 -07:00
Changli Gao 416c2f9cf5 genetlink: cleanup code according to CodingStyle
If the function is exported, the EXPORT* macro for it should follow immediately
after the closing function brace line.

Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
----
 net/netlink/genetlink.c |    9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-26 20:53:49 -07:00
David S. Miller 871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c
	net/core/ethtool.c
	net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
James Chapman f408e0ce40 netlink: Export genl_lock() API for use by modules
This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink
processing.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-03 14:56:05 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Samir Bellabes e1d5a01072 genetlink: optimize ctrl_dumpfamily()
there is a unnecessary test which can be replaced by a good initialization in
the 'for' statement

Noticed by Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-13 20:37:45 -08:00
Krishna Kumar 988ade6b8e genetlink: Optimize and one bug fix in genl_generate_id()
1. GENL_MIN_ID is a valid id -> no need to start at
   GENL_MIN_ID + 1.
2. Avoid going through the ids two times: If we start at
   GENL_MIN_ID+1 (*or bigger*) and all ids are over!, the
   code iterates through the list twice (*or lesser*).
3. Simplify code - no need to start at idx=0 which gets
   reset to GENL_MIN_ID.

Patch on net-next-2.6. Reboot test shows that first id
passed to genl_register_family was 16, next two were
GENL_ID_GENERATE and genl_generate_id returned 17 & 18
(user level testing of same code shows expected values
across entire range of MIN/MAX).

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17 23:57:26 -07:00
Krishna Kumar 93860b08e3 genetlink: Optimize genl_register_family()
genl_register_family() doesn't need to call genl_family_find_byid
when GENL_ID_GENERATE is passed during register.

Patch on net-next-2.6, compile and reboot testing only.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-17 23:57:26 -07:00
Johannes Berg b8273570f8 genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)
Similar to commit d136f1bd36,
there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family,
which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit:

    BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183
    in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod
    2 locks held by rmmod/1510:
     #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130
     #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120
    Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150
     [<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100
     [<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60
     [<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120
     [<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130
     [<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211]
     [<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211]

Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock
before doing rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-24 15:44:05 -07:00
Johannes Berg d136f1bd36 genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking
Since my commits introducing netns awareness into
genetlink we can get this problem:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: modprobe/1178/0x00000002
2 locks held by modprobe/1178:
 #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8135ee1a>] genl_register_mc_grou
 #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8135eeb5>] genl_register_mc_g
Pid: 1178, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-wl-34789-g95cb731-dirty #
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8103e285>] __schedule_bug+0x85/0x90
 [<ffffffff81403138>] schedule+0x108/0x588
 [<ffffffff8135b131>] netlink_table_grab+0xa1/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8135c3a7>] netlink_change_ngroups+0x47/0x100
 [<ffffffff8135ef0f>] genl_register_mc_group+0x12f/0x290

because I overlooked that netlink_table_grab() will
schedule, thinking it was just the rwlock. However,
in the contention case, that isn't actually true.

Fix this by letting the code grab the netlink table
lock first and then the RCU for netns protection.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-14 17:02:50 -07:00
Brian Haley b1f5719558 netlink: silence compiler warning
CC      net/netlink/genetlink.o
net/netlink/genetlink.c: In function ‘genl_register_mc_group’:
net/netlink/genetlink.c:139: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function

From following the code 'err' is initialized, but set it to zero to
silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04 20:36:52 -07:00
Johannes Berg 134e63756d genetlink: make netns aware
This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No
generic netlink families except for the controller family
are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by
one and then set the family->netnsok member to true.

A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to
allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace,
for example when it applies to an object that lives in
that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns()
to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects
that do not have an associated netns).

The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast
the message in just init_net, which is currently correct
for all generic netlink families since they only work in
init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all
net namespaces because they do not care about the netns
at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of
the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or
genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns
aware in some way.

After this patch families can easily decide whether or
not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many
genl families us it for objects not related to networking
and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but
that will have to be done on a per family basis.

Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart
problem where network namespaces could be used, genl
families and multicast groups are numbered globally and
I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it
must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces
for those families that do not care about netns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12 14:03:27 -07:00
Michał Mirosław a7b11d7382 genetlink: Introduce genl_register_family_with_ops()
This introduces genl_register_family_with_ops() that registers a genetlink
family along with operations from a table. This is used to kill copy'n'paste
occurrences in following patches.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-21 16:50:22 -07:00
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 3efb40c2c6 genetlink: export genl_unregister_mc_group()
Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL() to genl_unregister_mc_group(), to allow
unregistering groups on the run. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() is not used as
the rest of the functions exported by this module (eg:
genl_register_mc_group) are also not _GPL().

Cleanup is currently done when unregistering a family, but there is
no way to unregister a single multicast group due to that function not
being exported. Seems to be a mistake as it is documented as for
external consumption.

This is needed by the WiMAX stack to be able to cleanup unused mc
groups.

Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-07 10:00:17 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 6d1a3fb567 netlink: genl: fix circular locking
genetlink has a circular locking dependency when dumping the registered
families:

- dump start:
genl_rcv()            : take genl_mutex
genl_rcv_msg()        : call netlink_dump_start() while holding genl_mutex
netlink_dump_start(),
netlink_dump()        : take nlk->cb_mutex
ctrl_dumpfamily()     : try to detect this case and not take genl_mutex a
                        second time

- dump continuance:
netlink_rcv()         : call netlink_dump
netlink_dump          : take nlk->cb_mutex
ctrl_dumpfamily()     : take genl_mutex

Register genl_lock as callback mutex with netlink to fix this. This slightly
widens an already existing module unload race, the genl ops used during the
dump might go away when the module is unloaded. Thomas Graf is working on a
seperate fix for this.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-18 02:07:07 -07:00
Thomas Graf bc3ed28caa netlink: Improve returned error codes
Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and
nla_nest_cancel() void functions.

Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not
big enough.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03 16:36:54 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 910d6c320c [GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.
The genl_unregister_family() calls the genl_unregister_mc_groups(), 
which takes and releases the genl_lock and then locks and releases
this lock itself.

Relax this behavior, all the more so the genl_unregister_mc_groups() 
is called from genl_unregister_family() only.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-12 22:16:33 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
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 21:15:29 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 3b71535f35 [NET]: Make netlink processing routines semi-synchronious (inspired by rtnl) v2
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 21:13:32 -07:00
Herbert Xu 0cfad07555 [NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue
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 16:51:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman b4b510290b [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink
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>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Thomas Graf 79d310d01e [GENETLINK]: Correctly report errors while registering a multicast group
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:34:53 -07:00
Thomas Graf 2c04ddb707 [GENETLINK]: Fix adjustment of number of multicast groups
The current calculation of the maximum number of genetlink
multicast groups seems odd, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:33:51 -07:00
Thomas Graf 79dc4386ae [GENETLINK]: Fix race in genl_unregister_mc_groups()
family->mcast_groups is protected by genl_lock so it must
be held while accessing the list in genl_unregister_mc_groups().
Requires adding a non-locking variant of genl_unregister_mc_group().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-24 15:32:46 -07:00
Johannes Berg 2dbba6f773 [GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups.
Introduce API to dynamically register and unregister multicast groups.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-18 15:47:52 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ef7c79ed64 [NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07 13:40:10 -07:00
Patrick McHardy af65bdfce9 [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
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 22:29:03 -07:00
Thomas Graf c702e8047f [NETLINK]: Directly return -EINTR from netlink_dump_start()
Now that all users of netlink_dump_start() use netlink_run_queue()
to process the receive queue, it is possible to return -EINTR from
netlink_dump_start() directly, therefore simplying the callers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:33 -07:00
Thomas Graf 1d00a4eb42 [NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handler
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 22:27:30 -07:00