kernel/linux.git/include/net/genetlink.h, branch v4.12.12

netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions

2017-04-13T17:58:22+00:00

Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers (except for some in the core.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: pass extended ACK report down

2017-04-13T17:58:21+00:00

Pass the extended ACK reporting struct down from generic netlink to the families, using the existing struct genl_info for simplicity. Also add support to set the extended ACK information from generic netlink users. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: Make family a signed integer.

2016-11-13T17:14:59+00:00

The idr_alloc(), idr_remove(), et al. routines all expect IDs to be signed integers. Therefore make the genl_family member 'id' signed too. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: use idr to track families

2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: statically initialize families

2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs

2016-10-27T20:16:09+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: introduce and use genl_family_attrbuf()

2016-10-27T20:16:08+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Revert "genl: Add genlmsg_new_unicast() for unicast message allocation"

2016-02-18T16:42:19+00:00

This reverts commit bb9b18fb55b0 ("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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump

2015-12-16T04:25:20+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: simplify genl_notify

2015-09-24T19:25:23+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller