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* netlink: implement nla_get_in_addr and nla_get_in6_addrJiri Benc2015-03-311-0/+21
| | | | | | | Those are counterparts to nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: implement nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addrJiri Benc2015-03-311-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions to do that. For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is used to store IPv4 address. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() voidJohannes Berg2015-01-181-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb. This makes the very common pattern of if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... } be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do return nlmsg_end(...); and the caller is expected to deal with it. This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very common to write if (my_function(...)) /* error condition */ and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong. Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there. Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did - return nlmsg_end(...); + nlmsg_end(...); + return 0; I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more efficient version. One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time. I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Warn on unordered or illegal nla_nest_cancel() or nlmsg_cancel()Thomas Graf2015-01-051-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Calling nla_nest_cancel() in a different order as the nesting was built up can lead to negative offsets being calculated which results in skb_trim() being called with an underflowed unsigned int. Warn if mark < skb->data as it's definitely a bug. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* datapath: Rename last_action() as nla_is_last() and move to netlink.hSimon Horman2014-10-281-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original motivation for this change was to allow the helper to be used in files other than actions.c as part of work on an odp select group action. It was as pointed out by Thomas Graf that this helper would be best off living in netlink.h. Furthermore, I think that the generic nature of this helper means it is best off in netlink.h regardless of if it is used more than one .c file or not. Thus, I would like it considered independent of the work on an odp select group action. Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Cc: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@noironetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: fix description of portidNicolas Dichtel2014-10-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | Avoid confusion between pid and portid. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Fix shadow warning on jiffiesMark Rustad2014-07-281-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Change formal parameter name to not shadow the global jiffies. Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netevent/netlink.h: Remove extern from function prototypesJoe Perches2013-09-211-38/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for function prototypes. Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern. extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusionEric W. Biederman2012-09-101-13/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: add signed typesJiri Pirko2012-08-031-0/+98
| | | | | | | | Signed types might be needed in NL communication from time to time (I need s32 in team driver), so add them. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Delete all NLA_PUT*() macros.David S. Miller2012-04-021-68/+0
| | | | | | | They were error prone due to an embedded goto, and the entire tree has been converted away from using them. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Add nla_put_le{16,32,64}() helpers.David S. Miller2012-04-021-0/+33
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Add nla_put_net{16,32,64}() helpers.David S. Miller2012-04-021-0/+33
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Add nla_put_be{16,32,64}() helpers.David S. Miller2012-04-011-1/+34
| | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.Denys Vlasenko2012-01-301-35/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | text data bss dec hex filename 8455963 532732 1810804 10799499 a4c98b vmlinux.o.before 8448899 532732 1810804 10792435 a4adf3 vmlinux.o This change also removes commented-out copy of __nlmsg_put which was last touched in 2005 with "Enable once all users have been converted" comment on top. Changes in v2: rediffed against net-next. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: clarify attribute length check documentationJohannes Berg2011-11-041-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation for how the length of attributes is checked is wrong ("Exact length" isn't true, the policy checks are for "minimum length") and a bit misleading. Make it more complete and explain what really happens. Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: advertise incomplete dumpsJohannes Berg2011-06-221-0/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Consider the following situation: * a dump that would show 8 entries, four in the first round, and four in the second * between the first and second rounds, 6 entries are removed * now the second round will not show any entry, and even if there is a sequence/generation counter the application will not know To solve this problem, add a new flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR to the netlink header that indicates the dump wasn't consistent, this flag can also be set on the MSG_DONE message that terminates the dump, and as such above situation can be detected. To achieve this, add a sequence counter to the netlink callback struct. Of course, netlink code still needs to use this new functionality. The correct way to do that is to always set cb->seq when a dumpit callback is invoked and call nl_dump_check_consistent() for each new message. The core code will also call this function for the final MSG_DONE message. To make it usable with generic netlink, a new function genlmsg_nlhdr() is needed to obtain the netlink header from the genetlink user header. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* treewide: fix a few typos in commentsJustin P. Mattock2011-05-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | - kenrel -> kernel - whetehr -> whether - ttt -> tt - sss -> ss Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* netfilter: NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macrosJozsef Kadlecsik2011-02-011-0/+9
| | | | | | | | The patch adds the NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET id and NLA_PUT_NET* macros to the vanilla kernel. Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* netlink: let nlmsg and nla functions take pointer-to-const argsJan Engelhardt2010-11-161-8/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | The changed functions do not modify the NL messages and/or attributes at all. They should use const (similar to strchr), so that callers which have a const nlmsg/nlattr around can make use of them without casting. While at it, constify a data array. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Make nlmsg_find_attr take a const nlmsghdr*.Nelson Elhage2010-11-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | This will let us use it on a nlmsghdr stored inside a netlink_callback. Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: Fix a typo in netlink.hJustin P. Mattock2010-06-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Fix a typo in include/net/netlink.h should be finalize instead of finanlize Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: fix unaligned access in nla_get_be64()Pablo Neira Ayuso2010-03-191-1/+5
| | | | | | | | This patch fixes a unaligned access in nla_get_be64() that was introduced by myself in a17c859849402315613a0015ac8fbf101acf0cc1. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* const: struct nla_policyAlexey Dobriyan2010-02-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Make remaining netlink policies as const. Fixup coding style where needed. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: constify nlmsghdr argumentsPatrick McHardy2009-08-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Consitfy nlmsghdr arguments to a couple of functions as preparation for the next patch, which will constify the netlink message data in all nfnetlink users. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* netfilter: conntrack: add support for DCCP handshake sequence to ctnetlinkPablo Neira Ayuso2009-05-271-0/+9
| | | | | | | | This patch adds CTA_PROTOINFO_DCCP_HANDSHAKE_SEQ that exposes the u64 handshake sequence number to user-space. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* netlink: add nla_policy_len()Holger Eitzenberger2009-03-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | It calculates the max. length of a Netlink policy, which is usefull for allocating Netlink buffers roughly the size of the actual message. Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
* netlink: fix (theoretical) overrun in message iterationVegard Nossum2008-12-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See commit 1045b03e07d85f3545118510a587035536030c1c ("netlink: fix overrun in attribute iteration") for a detailed explanation of why this patch is necessary. In short, nlmsg_next() can make "remaining" go negative, and the remaining >= sizeof(...) comparison will promote "remaining" to an unsigned type, which means that the expression will evaluate to true for negative numbers, even though it was not intended. I put "theoretical" in the title because I have no evidence that this can actually happen, but I suspect that a crafted netlink packet can trigger some badness. Note that the last test, which seemingly has the exact same problem (also true for nla_ok()), is perfectly OK, since we already know that remaining is positive. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: constify struct nlattr * arg to parsing functionsPatrick McHardy2008-10-281-11/+11
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2008-10-011-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c net/core/dev.c
| * netlink: fix overrun in attribute iterationVegard Nossum2008-09-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kmemcheck reported this: kmemcheck: Caught 16-bit read from uninitialized memory (f6c1ba30) 0500110001508abf050010000500000002017300140000006f72672e66726565 i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u ^ Pid: 3462, comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted (2.6.27-rc3-00054-g6397ab9-dirty #13) EIP: 0060:[<c05de64a>] EFLAGS: 00010296 CPU: 0 EIP is at nla_parse+0x5a/0xf0 EAX: 00000008 EBX: fffffffd ECX: c06f16c0 EDX: 00000005 ESI: 00000010 EDI: f6c1ba30 EBP: f6367c6c ESP: c0a11e88 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: f781cc84 CR3: 3632f000 CR4: 000006d0 DR0: c0ead9bc DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 [<c05d4b23>] rtnl_setlink+0x63/0x130 [<c05d5f75>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x165/0x200 [<c05ddf66>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x76/0xa0 [<c05d5dfe>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1e/0x30 [<c05dda21>] netlink_unicast+0x281/0x290 [<c05ddbe9>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1b9/0x2b0 [<c05beef2>] sock_sendmsg+0xd2/0x100 [<c05bf945>] sys_sendto+0xa5/0xd0 [<c05bf9a6>] sys_send+0x36/0x40 [<c05c03d6>] sys_socketcall+0x1e6/0x2c0 [<c020353b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3f [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff This is the line in nla_ok(): /** * nla_ok - check if the netlink attribute fits into the remaining bytes * @nla: netlink attribute * @remaining: number of bytes remaining in attribute stream */ static inline int nla_ok(const struct nlattr *nla, int remaining) { return remaining >= sizeof(*nla) && nla->nla_len >= sizeof(*nla) && nla->nla_len <= remaining; } It turns out that remaining can become negative due to alignment in nla_next(). But GCC promotes "remaining" to unsigned in the test against sizeof(*nla) above. Therefore the test succeeds, and the nla_for_each_attr() may access memory outside the received buffer. A short example illustrating this point is here: #include <stdio.h> main(void) { printf("%d\n", -1 >= sizeof(int)); } ...which prints "1". This patch adds a cast in front of the sizeof so that GCC will make a signed comparison and fix the illegal memory dereference. With the patch applied, there is no kmemcheck report. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | netlink: Remove compat API for nested attributesThomas Graf2008-09-021-82/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Removes all _nested_compat() functions from the API. The prio qdisc no longer requires them and netem has its own format anyway. Their existance is only confusing. Resend: Also remove the wrapper macro. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: add NLA_PUT_BE64 macroKrzysztof Piotr Oledzki2008-07-211-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Add NLA_PUT_BE64 macro required for 64bit counters in netfilter Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Improve returned error codesThomas Graf2008-06-031-11/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | Make nlmsg_trim(), nlmsg_cancel(), genlmsg_cancel(), and nla_nest_cancel() void functions. Return -EMSGSIZE instead of -1 if the provided message buffer is not big enough. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* netlink: Fix nla_parse_nested_compat() to call nla_parse() directlyThomas Graf2008-05-221-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The purpose of nla_parse_nested_compat() is to parse attributes which contain a struct followed by a stream of nested attributes. So far, it called nla_parse_nested() to parse the stream of nested attributes which was wrong, as nla_parse_nested() expects a container attribute as data which holds the attribute stream. It needs to call nla_parse() directly while pointing at the next possible alignment point after the struct in the beginning of the attribute. With this patch, I can no longer reproduce the reported leftover warnings. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Add nla_append()Patrick McHardy2008-01-281-0/+3
| | | | | | | Used to append data to a message without a header or padding. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETNS]: Add netns to nl_info structure.Denis V. Lunev2008-01-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | nl_info is used to track the end-user destination of routing change notification. This is a natural object to hold a namespace on. Place it there and utilize the context in the appropriate places. Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Add NLA_PUT_BE16/nla_get_be16()Patrick McHardy2008-01-281-0/+12
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Mark attribute construction exception unlikelyPatrick McHardy2008-01-281-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev2007-10-101-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious. This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced asynchronious user -> kernel communication. The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the user. Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing may occur in the arbitrary process context. This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet processing right in the netlink_unicast. Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched. EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Fix typos in comments in netlink.hPierre Ynard2007-10-101-5/+5
| | | | | | | This patch fixes a few typos in comments in include/net/netlink.h Signed-off-by: Pierre Ynard <linkfanel@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queueHerbert Xu2007-10-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue. Changing it to return the value will allow the compiler to generate better code since the value won't have to be memory-backed. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attributeThomas Graf2007-10-101-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced. The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute typePatrick McHardy2007-07-101-0/+84
| | | | | | | | | Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a backwards compatible way. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies constPatrick McHardy2007-06-071-6/+6
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Possible cleanups.Adrian Bunk2007-04-261-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - make the following needlessly global variables static: - core/rtnetlink.c: struct rtnl_msg_handlers[] - netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c: struct nf_ct_protos[] - make the following needlessly global functions static: - core/rtnetlink.c: rtnl_dump_all() - netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_queue_skip() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: introduce NLA_BINARY typeJohannes Berg2007-04-251-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces a new NLA_BINARY attribute policy type with the verification of simply checking the maximum length of the payload. It also fixes a small typo in the example. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handlerThomas Graf2007-04-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The error pointer argument in netlink message handlers is used to signal the special case where processing has to be interrupted because a dump was started but no error happened. Instead it is simpler and more clear to return -EINTR and have netlink_run_queue() deal with getting the queue right. nfnetlink passed on this error pointer to its subsystem handlers but only uses it to signal the start of a netlink dump. Therefore it can be removed there as well. This patch also cleans up the error handling in the affected message handlers to be consistent since it had to be touched anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NETLINK]: Use nlmsg_trim() where appropriateArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-251-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2007-04-251-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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