kernel/linux.git/include/net/genetlink.h, branch v3.12.13

genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.

2013-08-28T21:19:17+00:00

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 CC: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.

2013-04-25T05:43:15+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

2012-09-10T19:30:41+00:00

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" Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Use NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE in combination with nlmsg_new()

2012-06-29T00:56:43+00:00

Using NLMSG_GOODSIZE results in multiple pages being used as nlmsg_new() will automatically add the size of the netlink header to the payload thus exceeding the page limit. NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE takes this into account. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Cc: Jiri Pirko Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Cc: Sergey Lapin Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Lauro Ramos Venancio Cc: Aloisio Almeida Jr Cc: Samuel Ortiz Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.

2012-01-30T20:22:06+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: Add genl_notify()

2011-12-03T17:35:05+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross

netlink: advertise incomplete dumps

2011-06-22T20:09:45+00:00

Consider the following situation: * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first round, and four in the second * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are removed * now the second round will not show any entry, and even if there is a sequence/generation counter the application will not know To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE message that terminates the dump, and as such above situation can be detected. To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs to use this new functionality. The correct way to do that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for each new message. The core code will also call this function for the final MSG_DONE message. To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header from the genetlink user header. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

treewide: fix a few typos in comments

2011-05-10T08:16:21+00:00

- kenrel -> kernel - whetehr -> whether - ttt -> tt - sss -> ss Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

include/net/genetlink.h: Allow genlmsg_cancel to accept a NULL argument

2011-02-04T04:47:08+00:00

nlmsg_cancel can accept NULL as its second argument, so for similarity, this patch extends genlmsg_cancel to be able to accept a NULL second argument as well. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: introduce pre_doit/post_doit hooks

2010-10-05T17:35:30+00:00

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 Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville