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| author | Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> | 2013-01-04 04:33:34 +0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-01-17 20:43:58 +0400 |
| commit | a0d3aa1f04a7430fc80f6f1a7aaaaf495da8d8e1 (patch) | |
| tree | cd4e0a2b2a532c4c2e846c6ed29081d0d14f43da /include | |
| parent | 2e3cbdeae8e4d13087657d95ed7a5be57dc9695e (diff) | |
| download | linux-a0d3aa1f04a7430fc80f6f1a7aaaaf495da8d8e1.tar.xz | |
rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation
commit 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a upstream.
Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK. The mask
is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that
certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application.
At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to
indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information
about the VFs belonging to the interface.
This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have
large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned
by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions.
Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with
the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will
not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel.
Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net
devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the
info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed
in via the new netlink attribute filter mask. If no filter
mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE.
With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink
attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible
in the future.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.0:
- Adjust context
- Drop the change in do_setlink() that reverts commit f18da1456581
('net: RTNETLINK adjusting values of min_ifinfo_dump_size'), which
was never applied here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/if_link.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rtnetlink.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/rtnetlink.h | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/if_link.h b/include/linux/if_link.h index 0ee969a5593d..61a48b5670dd 100644 --- a/include/linux/if_link.h +++ b/include/linux/if_link.h @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ enum { IFLA_AF_SPEC, IFLA_GROUP, /* Group the device belongs to */ IFLA_NET_NS_FD, + IFLA_EXT_MASK, /* Extended info mask, VFs, etc */ __IFLA_MAX }; diff --git a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h index bbad657a3725..5415dfb2235b 100644 --- a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h +++ b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h @@ -600,6 +600,9 @@ struct tcamsg { #define TCA_ACT_TAB 1 /* attr type must be >=1 */ #define TCAA_MAX 1 +/* New extended info filters for IFLA_EXT_MASK */ +#define RTEXT_FILTER_VF (1 << 0) + /* End of information exported to user level */ #ifdef __KERNEL__ diff --git a/include/net/rtnetlink.h b/include/net/rtnetlink.h index 678f1ffaf843..370293901971 100644 --- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h +++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ typedef int (*rtnl_doit_func)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *, void *); typedef int (*rtnl_dumpit_func)(struct sk_buff *, struct netlink_callback *); -typedef u16 (*rtnl_calcit_func)(struct sk_buff *); +typedef u16 (*rtnl_calcit_func)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *); extern int __rtnl_register(int protocol, int msgtype, rtnl_doit_func, rtnl_dumpit_func, |