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Author SHA1 Message Date
Yan Zheng
5d5780df23 [IPV6]: Acquire addrconf_hash_lock for read in addrconf_verify(...)
addrconf_verify(...) only traverse address hash table when
addrconf_hash_lock is held for writing, and it may hold
addrconf_hash_lock for a long time. So I think it's better to acquire
addrconf_hash_lock for reading instead of writing

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-20 13:42:20 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
fb0d366b08 [NET]: Reject socket filter if division by constant zero is attempted.
This way we don't have to check it in sk_run_filter().

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-20 13:41:34 -08:00
Andrea Bittau
aa8751667d [PKT_SCHED]: sch_netem: correctly order packets to be sent simultaneously
If two packets were queued to be sent at the same time in the future,
their order would be reversed.  This would occur because the queue is
traversed back to front, and a position is found by checking whether
the new packet needs to be sent before the packet being examined.  If
the new packet is to be sent at the same time of a previous packet, it
would end up before the old packet in the queue.  This patch places
packets in the correct order when they are queued to be sent at a same
time in the future.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-20 13:41:05 -08:00
David S. Miller
9e147a1cfc [IPV6]: Fib dump really needs GFP_ATOMIC.
Revert: 8225ccbaf0

Based upon a report by Yan Zheng.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-17 16:52:51 -08:00
Roman Zippel
05b8b0fafd [NET]: Sanitize NET_SCHED protection in /net/sched/Kconfig
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David Gómez wrote:

> I found out that if i select NET_CLS_ROUTE4, save my changes and exit
> menuconfig, execute again make menuconfig and go to QoS options, then the new
> available options are visible. So menuconfig has some problem refreshing
> contents :?

No, they were there before too, but you have to go up one level to see 
them.

It's better in 2.6.15-rc1-git5, but the menu structure is still a little 
messed up, the patch below properly indents all menu entries.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-17 15:22:39 -08:00
David S. Miller
381998241f [LLC]: Fix compiler warnings introduced by TX window scaling changes.
Noticed by Olaf Hering.

The comparisons want a u8 here (the data type on the left-hand branch
is a u8 structure member, and the constant on the right-hand branch is
"~((u8) 128)"), but C turns it into an integer so we get:

net/llc/llc_c_ac.c: In function `llc_conn_ac_inc_npta_value':
net/llc/llc_c_ac.c:998: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
net/llc/llc_c_ac.c:999: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type

Fix this up by explicitly recasting the right-hand branch constant
into a "u8" once more.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-17 15:17:42 -08:00
Harald Welte
2fce76afdb [NETFILTER] ip_conntrack: fix ftp/irc/tftp helpers on ports >= 32768
Since we've converted the ftp/irc/tftp helpers to use the new
module_parm_array() some time ago, we ware accidentially using signed data
types - thus preventing those modules from being used on ports >= 32768.

This patch fixes it by using 'ushort' module parameters.

Thanks to Jan Nijs for reporting this bug.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-17 15:06:47 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
bd6af700a7 [TCP]: TCP highspeed build error
There is a compile error that crept in with the last patch of
TCP patches.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-17 14:11:18 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
4a59a81051 [NETFILTER]: Fix nf_conntrack compilation with CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG
CC [M]  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.o
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: In function 'nf_ct_unlink_expect':
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:390: error: 'exp_timeout' undeclared (first use in this function)
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:390: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:390: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-16 23:14:19 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
e7c8a41e81 [IPV4,IPV6]: replace handmade list with hlist in IPv{4,6} reassembly
Both of ipq and frag_queue have *next and **prev, and they can be replaced
with hlist. Thanks Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo for the suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-16 12:55:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f6ff56cd56 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-11-15 16:59:38 -08:00
KOVACS Krisztian
5a6f294e43 [NETFILTER] Free layer-3 specific protocol tables at cleanup
Although the comment around the allocation code tells us that
the layer-3 specific protocol tables will be freed when cleaning up,
they aren't. And this makes nfsim complain loudly...

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-15 16:47:34 -08:00
KOVACS Krisztian
96479376c8 [NETFILTER] Remove nf_conntrack stat proc file when cleaning up
Fix nf_conntrack statistics proc file removal. Looks like the old bug
was forward-ported from ip_conntrack. :-]

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-15 16:47:09 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
31f3426904 [TCP]: More spelling fixes.
From Joe Perches

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-15 15:17:10 -08:00
NeilBrown
1887b93529 [PATCH] knfsd: make sure nfsd doesn't hog a cpu forever
Being kernel-threads, nfsd servers don't get pre-empted (depending on
CONFIG).  If there is a steady stream of NFS requests that can be served
from cache, an nfsd thread may hold on to a cpu indefinitely, which isn't
very friendly.

So it is good to have a cond_resched in there (just before looking for a
new request to serve), to make sure we play nice.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-15 08:59:19 -08:00
Jochen Friedrich
451677c46f [LLC]: Make core block on remote busy.
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 21:57:46 -08:00
Jochen Friedrich
59c6196e59 [LLC]: Fix TX window scaling
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 21:57:15 -08:00
Luiz Capitulino
cb422c464b [IPV6]: Fixes sparse warning in ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
The patch below fixes the following sparse warning:

net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c:291:13: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 21:43:36 -08:00
Yan Zheng
12da2a435c [IPV6]: small fix for ipv6_dev_get_saddr(...)
The "score.rule++" doesn't make any sense for me. 
According to codes above, I think it should be "hiscore.rule++;" .

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng<yanzheng@21cn.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 21:42:46 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
302fe1758d [NETFILTER] fix leak of fragment queue at unloading nf_conntrack_ipv6
This patch makes nf_conntrack_ipv6 free all IPv6 fragment queues at module
unloading time.  Also introduce a BUG_ON if we ever again have leaks in
the memory accounting.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:28:45 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
1ba430bc3e [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack: fix possibility of infinite loop while evicting nf_ct_frag6_queue
This synchronizes nf_ct_reasm with ipv6 reassembly, and fixes a possibility
of an infinite loop if CPUs evict and create nf_ct_frag6_queue in parallel.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:28:18 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
7686a02c0e [NETFILTER]: fix type of sysctl variables in nf_conntrack_ipv6
These variables should be unsigned.  This fixes sysctl handler for
nf_ct_frag6_{low,high}_thresh.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:27:43 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
9bdf87d90b [NETFILTER]: cleanup IPv6 Netfilter Kconfig
This removes linux 2.4 configs in comments as TODO lists.
And this also move the entry of nf_conntrack to top like IPv4 Netfilter
Kconfig.

Based on original patch by Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:26:58 -08:00
Krzysztof Oledzki
47d4305bf2 [NETFILTER]: link 'netfilter' before ipv4
Staticaly linked nf_conntrack_ipv4 requires nf_conntrack. but currently
nf_conntrack is linked after it. This changes the order of ipv4 and netfilter
to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Oledzki <olenf@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:25:59 -08:00
Harald Welte
37d2e7a20d [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: unconditionally require CAP_NET_ADMIN
This patch unconditionally requires CAP_NET_ADMIN for all nfnetlink
messages.  It also removes the per-message cap_required field, since all
existing subsystems use CAP_NET_ADMIN for all their messages anyway.

Patrick McHardy owes me a beer if we ever need to re-introduce this.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:24:59 -08:00
KOVACS Krisztian
3746a2b140 [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack: Add missing code to TCP conntrack module
Looks like the nf_conntrack TCP code was slightly mismerged: it does
not contain an else branch present in the IPv4 version. Let's add that
code and make the testsuite happy.

Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:23:01 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
5655820852 [NETFILTER] ctnetlink: More thorough size checking of attributes
Add missing size checks. Thanks Patrick McHardy for the hint.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:22:11 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
dbd36ea496 [NETFILTER] ctnetlink: use size_t to make gcc-4.x happy
Make gcc-4.x happy. Use size_t instead of int. Thanks to Patrick McHardy
for the hint.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:21:01 -08:00
Thomas Graf
8225ccbaf0 [IPV6]: Fix unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC allocation in fib6 dump
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-12 12:15:16 -08:00
Vlad Drukker
a2d7222f0f [NETFILTER] {ip,nf}_conntrack TCP: Accept SYN+PUSH like SYN
Some devices (e.g. Qlogic iSCSI HBA hardware like QLA4010 up to firmware
3.0.0.4) initiates TCP with SYN and PUSH flags set.

The Linux TCP/IP stack deals fine with that, but the connection tracking
code doesn't.

This patch alters TCP connection tracking to accept SYN+PUSH as a valid
flag combination.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Drukker <vlad@storewiz.com>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-12 12:13:14 -08:00
Herbert Xu
efacfbcb6c [IPV6]: Fix rtnetlink dump infinite loop
The recent change to netlink dump "done" callback handling broke IPv6
which played dirty tricks with the "done" callback.  This causes an
infinite loop during a dump.

The following patch fixes it.

This bug was reported by Jeff Garzik.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-12 12:12:05 -08:00
Neil Horman
049b3ff5a8 [SCTP]: Include ulpevents in socket receive buffer accounting.
Also introduces a sysctl option to configure the receive buffer
accounting policy to be either at socket or association level.
Default is all the associations on the same socket share the
receive buffer.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 16:08:24 -08:00
Vladislav Yasevich
1e7d3d90c9 [SCTP]: Remove timeouts[] array from sctp_endpoint.
The socket level timeout values are maintained in sctp_sock and
association level timeouts are in sctp_association. So there is
no need for ep->timeouts.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 16:06:16 -08:00
Vladislav Yasevich
23ec47a088 [SCTP]: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sctp_v4_get_saddr
It is possible to get to sctp_v4_get_saddr() without a valid
association.  This happens when processing OOTB packets and
the cached route entry is no longer valid.
However, when responding to OOTB packets we already properly
set the source address based on the information in the OOTB
packet.  So, if we we get to sctp_v4_get_saddr() without an
association we can simply return.

Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 16:05:55 -08:00
David S. Miller
8eb5591052 [IPV6]: Fix inet6_init missing unregister.
Based mostly upon a patch from Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>

When initialization fails in inet6_init(), we should
unregister the PF_INET6 socket ops.

Also, check sock_register()'s return value for errors.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 15:05:47 -08:00
Patrick Caulfield
9eb5c94ef2 [DECNET]: fix SIGPIPE
Currently recvmsg generates SIGPIPE whereas sendmsg does not; for the
other stacks it seems to be the other way round!

It also fixes the bug where reading from a socket whose peer has shutdown
returned -EINVAL rather than 0.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-11 12:04:28 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
c050970a25 [PATCH] TCP: fix vegas build
Recent TCP changes broke the build.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-11 09:21:28 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
6a438bbe68 [TCP]: speed up SACK processing
Use "hints" to speed up the SACK processing. Various forms 
of this have been used by TCP developers (Web100, STCP, BIC)
to avoid the 2x linear search of outstanding segments.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:14:59 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
caa20d9abe [TCP]: spelling fixes
Minor spelling fixes for TCP code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:13:47 -08:00
John Heffner
326f36e9e7 [TCP]: receive buffer growth limiting with mixed MTU
This is a patch for discussion addressing some receive buffer growing issues.
This is partially related to the thread "Possible BUG in IPv4 TCP window
handling..." last week.

Specifically it addresses the problem of an interaction between rcvbuf
moderation (receiver autotuning) and rcv_ssthresh.  The problem occurs when
sending small packets to a receiver with a larger MTU.  (A very common case I
have is a host with a 1500 byte MTU sending to a host with a 9k MTU.)  In
such a case, the rcv_ssthresh code is targeting a window size corresponding
to filling up the current rcvbuf, not taking into account that the new rcvbuf
moderation may increase the rcvbuf size.

One hunk makes rcv_ssthresh use tcp_rmem[2] as the size target rather than
rcvbuf.  The other changes the behavior when it overflows its memory bounds
with in-order data so that it tries to grow rcvbuf (the same as with
out-of-order data).

These changes should help my problem of mixed MTUs, and should also help the
case from last week's thread I think.  (In both cases though you still need
tcp_rmem[2] to be set much larger than the TCP window.)  One question is if
this is too aggressive at trying to increase rcvbuf if it's under memory
stress.

Orignally-from: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:11:48 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
9772efb970 [TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count support
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.

The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:09:53 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
7faffa1c7f [TCP]: add tcp_slow_start helper
Move all the code that does linear TCP slowstart to one
inline function to ease later patch to add ABC support.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 17:07:24 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
2d2abbab63 [TCP]: simplify microsecond rtt sampling
Simplify the code that comuputes microsecond rtt estimate used
by TCP Vegas. Move the callback out of the RTT sampler and into
the end of the ack cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 16:56:12 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
f4805eded7 [TCP]: fix congestion window update when using TSO deferal
TCP peformance with TSO over networks with delay is awful.
On a 100Mbit link with 150ms delay, we get 4Mbits/sec with TSO and
50Mbits/sec without TSO.

The problem is with TSO, we intentionally do not keep the maximum
number of packets in flight to fill the window, we hold out to until 
we can send a MSS chunk. But, we also don't update the congestion window 
unless we have filled, as per RFC2861.

This patch replaces the check for the congestion window being full
with something smarter that accounts for TSO.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 16:53:30 -08:00
Herbert Xu
fb286bb299 [NET]: Detect hardware rx checksum faults correctly
Here is the patch that introduces the generic skb_checksum_complete
which also checks for hardware RX checksum faults.  If that happens,
it'll call netdev_rx_csum_fault which currently prints out a stack
trace with the device name.  In future it can turn off RX checksum.

I've converted every spot under net/ that does RX checksum checks to
use skb_checksum_complete or __skb_checksum_complete with the
exceptions of:

* Those places where checksums are done bit by bit.  These will call
netdev_rx_csum_fault directly.

* The following have not been completely checked/converted:

ipmr
ip_vs
netfilter
dccp

This patch is based on patches and suggestions from Stephen Hemminger
and David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 13:01:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b01a55a865 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-11-09 19:32:25 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
940e3318c3 [PATCH] SUNRPC: don't reencode when looping in call transmit.
If the call to xprt_transmit() fails due to socket buffer space
exhaustion, we do not need to re-encode the RPC message when we
loop back through call_transmit.

Re-encoding can actually end up triggering the WARN_ON() in
call_decode() if we re-encode something like a read() request and
auth->au_rslack has changed.
It can also cause us to increment the RPCSEC_GSS sequence number
beyond the limits of the allowed window.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 19:31:33 -08:00
Thomas Graf
482a8524f8 [NETLINK]: Generic netlink family
The generic netlink family builds on top of netlink and provides
simplifies access for the less demanding netlink users. It solves
the problem of protocol numbers running out by introducing a so
called controller taking care of id management and name resolving.

Generic netlink modules register themself after filling out their
id card (struct genl_family), after successful registration the
modules are able to register callbacks to command numbers by
filling out a struct genl_ops and calling genl_register_op(). The
registered callbacks are invoked with attributes parsed making
life of simple modules a lot easier.

Although generic netlink modules can request static identifiers,
it is recommended to use GENL_ID_GENERATE and to let the controller
assign a unique identifier to the module. Userspace applications
will then ask the controller and lookup the idenfier by the module
name.

Due to the current multicast implementation of netlink, the number
of generic netlink modules is restricted to 1024 to avoid wasting
memory for the per socket multiacst subscription bitmask.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:41 +01:00
Thomas Graf
9ac4a16983 [RTNETLINK]: Use generic netlink receive queue processor
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00
Thomas Graf
88fc2c8431 [XFRM]: Use generic netlink receive queue processor
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:26:40 +01:00