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* net/netlink: lockdep_genl_is_held can be booleanYaowei Bai2015-10-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes lockdep_genl_is_held return bool to improve readability due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its return value. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* genetlink: synchronize socket closing and family removalJohannes Berg2015-01-161-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In addition to the problem Jeff Layton reported, I looked at the code and reproduced the same warning by subscribing and removing the genl family with a socket still open. This is a fairly tricky race which originates in the fact that generic netlink allows the family to go away while sockets are still open - unlike regular netlink which has a module refcount for every open socket so in general this cannot be triggered. Trying to resolve this issue by the obvious locking isn't possible as it will result in deadlocks between unregistration and group unbind notification (which incidentally lockdep doesn't find due to the home grown locking in the netlink table.) To really resolve this, introduce a "closing socket" reference counter (for generic netlink only, as it's the only affected family) in the core netlink code and use that in generic netlink to wait for all the sockets that are being closed at the same time as a generic netlink family is removed. This fixes the race that when a socket is closed, it will should call the unbind, but if the family is removed at the same time the unbind will not find it, leading to the warning. The real problem though is that in this case the unbind could actually find a new family that is registered to have a multicast group with the same ID, and call its mcast_unbind() leading to confusing. Also remove the warning since it would still trigger, but is now no longer a problem. This also moves the code in af_netlink.c to before unreferencing the module to avoid having the same problem in the normal non-genl case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells2012-10-131-81/+1
| | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* genetlink: define lockdep_genl_is_held() when CONFIG_LOCKDEPWANG Cong2012-07-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | lockdep_is_held() is defined when CONFIG_LOCKDEP, not CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* genetlink: Build a generic netlink family module aliasNeil Horman2012-05-291-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Generic netlink searches for -type- formatted aliases when requesting a module to fulfill a protocol request (i.e. net-pf-16-proto-16-type-<x>, where x is a type value). However generic netlink protocols have no well defined type numbers, they have string names. Modify genl_ctrl_getfamily to request an alias in the format net-pf-16-proto-16-family-<x> instead, where x is a generic string, and add a macro that builds on the previously added MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO_NAME macro to allow modules to specifify those generic strings. Note, l2tp previously hacked together an net-pf-16-proto-16-type-l2tp alias using the MODULE_ALIAS macro, with these updates we can convert that to use the PROTO_NAME macro. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* genetlink: Add rcu_dereference_genl and genl_dereference.Jesse Gross2011-12-031-0/+21
| | | | | | | | This adds rcu_dereference_genl and genl_dereference, which are genl variants of the RTNL functions to enforce proper locking with lockdep and sparse. Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
* genetlink: Add lockdep_genl_is_held().Pravin B Shelar2011-12-031-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Open vSwitch uses genl_mutex locking to protect datapath data-structures like flow-table, flow-actions. Following patch adds lockdep_genl_is_held() which is used for rcu annotation to prove locking. Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
* netlink: Export genl_lock() API for use by modulesJames Chapman2010-04-031-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | This lets kernel modules which use genl netlink APIs serialize netlink processing. Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* headers_check fix: linux/genetlink.hJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-01-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | fix the following 'make headers_check' warning: usr/include/linux/genetlink.h:12: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
* [GENETLINK]: Dynamic multicast groups.Johannes Berg2007-07-181-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | Introduce API to dynamically register and unregister multicast groups. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [GENETLINK]: Move command capabilities to flags.Jamal Hadi Salim2006-12-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves command capabilities to command flags. Other than being cleaner, saves several bytes. We increment the nlctrl version so as to signal to user space that to not expect the attributes. We will try to be careful not to do this too often ;-> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl familiesThomas Graf2006-09-221-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Additionaly exports the following information when providing the list of registered generic netlink families: - protocol version - header size - maximum number of attributes - list of available operations including - id - flags - avaiability of policy and doit/dumpit function libnl HEAD provides a utility to read this new information: 0x0010 nlctrl version 1 hdrsize 0 maxattr 6 op GETFAMILY (0x03) [POLICY,DOIT,DUMPIT] 0x0011 NLBL_MGMT version 1 hdrsize 0 maxattr 0 op unknown (0x02) [DOIT] op unknown (0x03) [DOIT] .... Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Generic netlink familyThomas Graf2005-11-101-0/+51
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>