kernel/linux.git/net/Makefile, branch v5.10.257

Remove DECnet support from kernel

2023-06-21T13:45:38+00:00

commit 1202cdd665315c525b5237e96e0bedc76d7e754f upstream. DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol history museum not in Linux kernel. It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well. Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling. This means that there is still an empty neighbour table for AF_DECNET. The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: David Ahern Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: move devres helpers into a separate source file

2020-05-23T23:56:17+00:00

There's currently only a single devres helper in net/ - devm variant of alloc_etherdev. Let's move it to net/devres.c with the intention of assing a second one: devm_register_netdev(). This new routine will need to know the address of the release function of devm_alloc_etherdev() so that it can verify (using devres_find()) that the struct net_device that's being passed to it is also resource managed. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mptcp: Add MPTCP socket stubs

2020-01-24T12:44:07+00:00

Implements the infrastructure for MPTCP sockets. MPTCP sockets open one in-kernel TCP socket per subflow. These subflow sockets are only managed by the MPTCP socket that owns them and are not visible from userspace. This commit allows a userspace program to open an MPTCP socket with: sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_MPTCP); The resulting socket is simply a wrapper around a single regular TCP socket, without any of the MPTCP protocol implemented over the wire. Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Co-developed-by: Peter Krystad Signed-off-by: Peter Krystad Co-developed-by: Matthieu Baerts Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts Co-developed-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ethtool: move to its own directory

2019-12-13T01:07:05+00:00

The ethtool netlink interface is going to be split into multiple files so that it will be more convenient to put all of them in a separate directory net/ethtool. Start by moving current ethtool.c with ioctl interface into this directory and renaming it to ioctl.c. Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files

2019-02-28T15:24:23+00:00

We need this functionality for the io_uring file registration, but we cannot rely on it since CONFIG_UNIX can be modular. Move the helpers to a separate file, that's always builtin to the kernel if CONFIG_UNIX is m/y. No functional changes in this patch, just moving code around. Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bpfilter: check compiler capability in Kconfig

2018-06-28T04:36:39+00:00

With the brand-new syntax extension of Kconfig, we can directly check the compiler capability in the configuration phase. If the cc-can-link.sh fails, the BPFILTER_UMH is automatically hidden by the dependency. I also deleted 'default n', which is no-op. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bpfilter: switch to CC from HOSTCC

2018-06-05T14:21:18+00:00

check that CC can build executables and use that compiler instead of HOSTCC Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add skeleton of bpfilter kernel module

2018-05-23T17:23:40+00:00

bpfilter.ko consists of bpfilter_kern.c (normal kernel module code) and user mode helper code that is embedded into bpfilter.ko The steps to build bpfilter.ko are the following: - main.c is compiled by HOSTCC into the bpfilter_umh elf executable file - with quite a bit of objcopy and Makefile magic the bpfilter_umh elf file is converted into bpfilter_umh.o object file with _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_start and _end symbols Example: $ nm ./bld_x64/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_umh.o 0000000000004cf8 T _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_end 0000000000004cf8 A _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_size 0000000000000000 T _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_start - bpfilter_umh.o and bpfilter_kern.o are linked together into bpfilter.ko bpfilter_kern.c is a normal kernel module code that calls the fork_usermode_blob() helper to execute part of its own data as a user mode process. Notice that _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_start - end is placed into .init.rodata section, so it's freed as soon as __init function of bpfilter.ko is finished. As part of __init the bpfilter.ko does first request/reply action via two unix pipe provided by fork_usermode_blob() helper to make sure that umh is healthy. If not it will kill it via pid. Later bpfilter_process_sockopt() will be called from bpfilter hooks in get/setsockopt() to pass iptable commands into umh via bpfilter.ko If admin does 'rmmod bpfilter' the __exit code bpfilter.ko will kill umh as well. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xsk: add user memory registration support sockopt

2018-05-03T22:55:23+00:00

In this commit the base structure of the AF_XDP address family is set up. Further, we introduce the abilty register a window of user memory to the kernel via the XDP_UMEM_REG setsockopt syscall. The memory window is viewed by an AF_XDP socket as a set of equally large frames. After a user memory registration all frames are "owned" by the user application, and not the kernel. v2: More robust checks on umem creation and unaccount on error. Call set_page_dirty_lock on cleanup. Simplified xdp_umem_reg. Co-authored-by: Magnus Karlsson Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

ipx: move Novell IPX protocol support into staging

2017-11-28T12:55:00+00:00

The Netware IPX protocol is very old and no one should still be using it. It is time to move it into staging for a while and eventually decommision it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman