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2008-07-16core: add stat to track unresolved discards in neighbor cacheNeil Horman
in __neigh_event_send, if we have a neighbour entry which is in NUD_INCOMPLETE state, we enqueue any outbound frames to that neighbour to the neighbours arp_queue, which is default capped to a length of 3 skbs. If that queue exceeds its set length, it will drop an skb on the queue to enqueue the newly arrived skb. This results in a drop for which we have no statistics incremented. This patch adds an unresolved_discards stat to /proc/net/stat/ndisc_cache to track these lost frames. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-03netlink: Improve returned error codesThomas Graf
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>
2008-06-03net: neighbour table ABI problemStephen Hemminger
The neighbor table time of last use information is returned in the incorrect unit. Kernel to user space ABI's need to use USER_HZ (or milliseconds), otherwise the application has to try and discover the real system HZ value which is problematic. Linux has standardized on keeping USER_HZ consistent (100hz) even when kernel is running internally at some other value. This change is small, but it breaks the ABI for older version of iproute2 utilities. But these utilities are already broken since they are looking at the psched_hz values which are completely different. So let's just go ahead and fix both kernel and user space. Older utilities will just print wrong values. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-02net: assign PDE->data before gluing PDE into /proc treeDenis V. Lunev
Simply replace proc_create and further data assigned with proc_create_data. Additionally, there is no need to assign NULL to PDE->data after creation, /proc generic has already done this for us. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-28[NET] NEIGHBOUR: Extract hash/lookup functions for pneigh entries.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Extract hash function for pneigh entries from pneigh_lookup(), __pneigh_lookup() and pneigh_delete() as pneigh_hash(). Extract core of pneigh_lookup() and __pneigh_lookup() as __pneigh_lookup_1(). Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-28[NET] NEIGHBOUR: Make each EXPORT_SYMBOL{,_GPL}() immediately follow its ↵YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
function/variable. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-27Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c net/ipv6/ndisc.c
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit namespace comparision without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce an inline net_eq() to compare two namespaces. Without CONFIG_NET_NS, since no namespace other than &init_net exists, it is always 1. We do not need to convert 1) inline vs inline and 2) inline vs &init_net comparisons. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit neigh_parms->net and pneigh_entry->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce neigh_parms/pneigh_entry inlines: neigh_parms_net(), pneigh_net(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit seq_net_private->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists, no need to store net in seq_net_private. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit sock->sk_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce per-sock inlines: sock_net(), sock_net_set() and per-inet_timewait_sock inlines: twsk_net(), twsk_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-26[NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-03-24[NEIGH]: Fix race between pneigh deletion and ipv6's ndisc_recv_ns (v3).Pavel Emelyanov
Proxy neighbors do not have any reference counting, so any caller of pneigh_lookup (unless it's a netlink triggered add/del routine) should _not_ perform any actions on the found proxy entry. There's one exception from this rule - the ipv6's ndisc_recv_ns() uses found entry to check the flags for NTF_ROUTER. This creates a race between the ndisc and pneigh_delete - after the pneigh is returned to the caller, the nd_tbl.lock is dropped and the deleting procedure may proceed. One of the fixes would be to add a reference counting, but this problem exists for ndisc only. Besides such a patch would be too big for -rc4. So I propose to introduce a __pneigh_lookup() which is supposed to be called with the lock held and use it in ndisc code to check the flags on alive pneigh entry. Changes from v2: As David noticed, Exported the __pneigh_lookup() to ipv6 module. The checkpatch generates a warning on it, since the EXPORT_SYMBOL does not follow the symbol itself, but in this file all the exports come at the end, so I decided no to break this harmony. Changes from v1: Fixed comments from YOSHIFUJI - indentation of prototype in header and the pndisc_check_router() name - and a compilation fix, pointed by Daniel - the is_routed was (falsely) considered as uninitialized by gcc. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c
2008-03-03[NET]: Fix race in generic address resolution.Frank Blaschka
neigh_update sends skb from neigh->arp_queue while neigh_timer_handler has increased skbs refcount and calls solicit with the skb. neigh_timer_handler should not increase skbs refcount but make a copy of the skb and do solicit with the copy. Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-28[NETNS]: Default arp parameters lookup.Denis V. Lunev
Default ARP parameters should be findable regardless of the context. Required to make inetdev_event working. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-28[NETNS]: Register neighbour table parameters in the correct namespace.Denis V. Lunev
neigh_sysctl_register should register sysctl entries inside correct namespace to avoid naming conflict. Typical example is a loopback. Entries for it present in all namespaces. Required to make inetdev_event working. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-28[NEIGHBOUR]: Use proc_create() to setup ->proc_fops firstWang Chen
Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-23[NEIGH]: Fix race between neighbor lookup and table's hash_rnd update.Pavel Emelyanov
The neigh_hash_grow() may update the tbl->hash_rnd value, which is used in all tbl->hash callbacks to calculate the hashval. Two lookup routines may race with this, since they call the ->hash callback without the tbl->lock held. Since the hash_rnd is changed with this lock write-locked moving the calls to ->hash under this lock read-locked closes this gap. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-20[NETNS]: Namespace leak in pneigh_lookup.Denis V. Lunev
release_net is missed on the error path in pneigh_lookup. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-17Revert "[NDISC]: Fix race in generic address resolution"David S. Miller
This reverts commit 69cc64d8d92bf852f933e90c888dfff083bd4fc9. It causes recursive locking in IPV6 because unlike other neighbour layer clients, it even needs neighbour cache entries to send neighbour soliciation messages :-( We'll have to find another way to fix this race. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-12[NDISC]: Fix race in generic address resolutionDavid S. Miller
Frank Blaschka provided the bug report and the initial suggested fix for this bug. He also validated this version of this fix. The problem is that the access to neigh->arp_queue is inconsistent, we grab references when dropping the lock lock to call neigh->ops->solicit() but this does not prevent other threads of control from trying to send out that packet at the same time causing corruptions because both code paths believe they have exclusive access to the skb. The best option seems to be to hold the write lock on neigh->lock during the ->solicit() call. I looked at all of the ndisc_ops implementations and this seems workable. The only case that needs special care is the IPV4 ARP implementation of arp_solicit(). It wants to take neigh->lock as a reader to protect the header entry in neigh->ha during the emission of the soliciation. We can simply remove the read lock calls to take care of that since holding the lock as a writer at the caller providers a superset of the protection afforded by the existing read locking. The rest of the ->solicit() implementations don't care whether the neigh is locked or not. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[ARP]: neigh_parms_put(destroy) are essentially local to core/neighbour.c.Denis V. Lunev
Make them static. [ Moved the inline before, instead of after, call sites. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[ARP]: Remove forward declaration of neigh_changeaddr.Denis V. Lunev
No need for this. It is declared in the neighbour.h Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[ARP]: Remove overkill checks from neigh_param_alloc.Denis V. Lunev
Valid network device is always passed into neigh_param_alloc, so remove extra checking for dev == NULL. Additionally, cleanup bogus netns assignment. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NEIGH]: Make /proc/net/arp opening consistent with seq_net_open semanticsDenis V. Lunev
seq_open_net requires that first field of the seq->private data to be struct seq_net_private. In reality this is a single pointer to a struct net for now. The patch makes code consistent. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Add some acquires/releases sparse annotations.Eric Dumazet
Add __acquires() and __releases() annotations to suppress some sparse warnings. example of warnings : net/ipv4/udp.c:1555:14: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_start' - wrong count at exit net/ipv4/udp.c:1571:13: warning: context imbalance in 'udp_seq_stop' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Modify the neighbour table code so it handles multiple network ↵Eric W. Biederman
namespaces I'm actually surprised at how much was involved. At first glance it appears that the neighbour table data structures are already split by network device so all that should be needed is to modify the user interface commands to filter the set of neighbours by the network namespace of their devices. However a couple things turned up while I was reading through the code. The proxy neighbour table allows entries with no network device, and the neighbour parms are per network device (except for the defaults) so they now need a per network namespace default. So I updated the two structures (which surprised me) with their very own network namespace parameter. Updated the relevant lookup and destroy routines with a network namespace parameter and modified the code that interacts with users to filter out neighbour table entries for devices of other namespaces. I'm a little concerned that we can modify and display the global table configuration and from all network namespaces. But this appears good enough for now. I keep thinking modifying the neighbour table to have per network namespace instances of each table type would should be cleaner. The hash table is already dynamically sized so there are it is not a limiter. The default parameter would be straight forward to take care of. However when I look at the how the network table is built and used I still find some assumptions that there is only a single neighbour table for each type of table in the kernel. The netlink operations, neigh_seq_start, the non-core network users that call neigh_lookup. So while it might be doable it would require more refactoring than my current approach of just doing a little extra filtering in the code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NEIGH]: Make neigh_add_timer symmetrical to neigh_del_timer.Pavel Emelyanov
The neigh_del_timer() looks sane - it removes the timer and (conditionally) puts the neighbor. I expected, that the neigh_add_timer() is symmetrical to the del one - i.e. it holds the neighbor and arms the timer - but it turned out that it was not so. I think, that making them look symmetrical makes the code more readable. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NEIGH]: Use the ctl paths to create neighbours sysctlsPavel Emelyanov
The appropriate path is prepared right inside this function. It is prepared similar to how the ctl tables were. Since the path is modified, it is put on the stack, to avoid possible races with multiple calls to neigh_sysctl_register() : it is called by protocols and I didn't find any protection in this case. Did I overlooked the rtnl lock?. The stack growth of the neigh_sysctl_register() is 40 bytes. I believe this is OK, since this is not that much and this function is not called with the deep stack (device/protocols register). The device's name is stored on the template to free it later. This will help with the net namespaces, as each namespace should have its own set of these ctls. Besides, this saves ~350 bytes from the neigh template :) Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NEIGH]: Cleanup the neigh_sysctl_registerPavel Emelyanov
This mainly removes the err variable, as this call always return the same error code (-ENOBUFS). Besides, I moved the call to kmalloc() from the *t declaration into the code (this is confusing when a variable is initialized with the result of some call) and removed unneeded comment near the error path. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware (v3)Denis V. Lunev
After this patch none of the netlink callback support anything except the initial network namespace but the rtnetlink infrastructure now handles multiple network namespaces. Changes from v2: - IPv6 addrlabel processing Changes from v1: - no need for special rtnl_unlock handling - fixed IPv6 ndisc Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NET]: Modify all rtnetlink methods to only work in the initial namespace (v2)Denis V. Lunev
Before I can enable rtnetlink to work in all network namespaces I need to be certain that something won't break. So this patch deliberately disables all of the rtnletlink methods in everything except the initial network namespace. After the methods have been audited this extra check can be disabled. Changes from v1: - added IPv6 addrlabel protection Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-28[NET]: Convert init_timer into setup_timerPavel Emelyanov
Many-many code in the kernel initialized the timer->function and timer->data together with calling init_timer(timer). There is already a helper for this. Use it for networking code. The patch is HUGE, but makes the code 130 lines shorter (98 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-20[NEIGH]: Revert 'Fix race between neigh_parms_release and neightbl_fill_parms'David S. Miller
Commit 9cd40029423701c376391da59d2c6469672b4bed (Fix race between neigh_parms_release and neightbl_fill_parms) introduced device reference counting regressions for several people, see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778 for example. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-10[NEIGH]: Fix race between neigh_parms_release and neightbl_fill_parmsPavel Emelyanov
The neightbl_fill_parms() is called under the write-locked tbl->lock and accesses the parms->dev. The negh_parm_release() calls the dev_put(parms->dev) without this lock. This creates a tiny race window on which the parms contains potentially stale dev pointer. To fix this race it's enough to move the dev_put() upper under the tbl->lock, but note, that the parms are held by neighbors and thus can live after the neigh_parms_release() is called, so we still can have a parm with bad dev pointer. I didn't find where the neigh->parms->dev is accessed, but still think that putting the dev is to be done in a place, where the parms are really freed. Am I right with that? Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07[NET]: Remove /proc/net/stat/*_arp_cache upon module removalAlexey Dobriyan
neigh_table_init_no_netlink() creates them, but they aren't removed anywhere. Steps to reproduce: modprobe clip rmmod clip cat /proc/net/stat/clip_arp_cache BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f89d7758 printing eip: c05a99da *pdpt = 0000000000004001 *pde = 0000000004408067 *pte = 0000000000000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: atm af_packet ipv6 binfmt_misc sbs sbshc fan dock battery backlight ac power_supply parport loop rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib serio_raw button k8temp hwmon amd_rng sr_mod cdrom shpchp pci_hotplug ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore Pid: 2082, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc1-b1d08ac064268d0ae2281e98bf5e82627e0f0c56-bloat #4) EIP: 0060:[<c05a99da>] EFLAGS: 00210256 CPU: 0 EIP is at neigh_stat_seq_next+0x26/0x3f EAX: 00000001 EBX: f89d7600 ECX: c587bf40 EDX: 00000000 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000001 EBP: 00000400 ESP: c587bf1c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process cat (pid: 2082, ti=c587b000 task=c5984e10 task.ti=c587b000) Stack: c06228cc c5313790 c049e5c0 0804f000 c45a7b00 c53137b0 00000000 00000000 00000082 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 fffffffb c58d6780 c049e437 c45a7b00 c04b1f93 c587bfa0 00000400 0804f000 00000400 0804f000 c04b1f2f Call Trace: [<c049e5c0>] seq_read+0x189/0x281 [<c049e437>] seq_read+0x0/0x281 [<c04b1f93>] proc_reg_read+0x64/0x77 [<c04b1f2f>] proc_reg_read+0x0/0x77 [<c048907e>] vfs_read+0x80/0xd1 [<c0489491>] sys_read+0x41/0x67 [<c04080fa>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xc1 ======================= Code: e9 ec 8d 05 00 56 8b 11 53 8b 40 70 8b 58 3c eb 29 0f a3 15 80 91 7b c0 19 c0 85 c0 8d 42 01 74 17 89 c6 c1 fe 1f 89 01 89 71 04 <8b> 83 58 01 00 00 f7 d0 8b 04 90 eb 09 89 c2 83 fa 01 7e d2 31 EIP: [<c05a99da>] neigh_stat_seq_next+0x26/0x3f SS:ESP 0068:c587bf1c Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-22[ATM]: Fix clip module reload crash.Randy Dunlap
net/atm/clip.c crashes the kernel if it (module) is loaded, removed, and then loaded again. Its exit call to neigh_table_clear() should destroy the cache after freeing it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-18sysctl: fix neighbour table sysctls.Eric W. Biederman
- In ipv6 ndisc_ifinfo_syctl_change so it doesn't depend on binary sysctl names for a function that works with proc. - In neighbour.c reorder the table to put the possibly unused entries at the end so we can remove them by terminating the table early. - In neighbour.c kill the entries with questionable binary sysctl handling behavior. - In neighbour.c if we don't have a strategy routine remove the binary path. So we don't the default sysctl strategy routine on data that is not ready for it. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-15[NEIGH]: Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNLPavel Emelyanov
The pnigh_lookup is used to lookup proxy entries and to create them in case lookup failed. However, the "creation" code does not perform the re-lookup after GFP_KERNEL allocation. This is done because the code is expected to be protected with the RTNL lock, so add the assertion (mainly to address future questions from new network developers like me :) ). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.Stephen Hemminger
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class not the device instance, make them into a separate object and save memory. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Wrap netdevice hardware header creation.Stephen Hemminger
Add inline for common usage of hardware header creation, and fix bug in IPV6 mcast where the assumption about negative return is an errno. Negative return from hard_header means not enough space was available,(ie -N bytes). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.Eric W. Biederman
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a network namespace variable, and then it picks up a few associated variables. The functions: dev_getbyhwaddr dev_getfirsthwbytype dev_get_by_flags dev_get_by_name __dev_get_by_name dev_get_by_index __dev_get_by_index dev_ioctl dev_ethtool dev_load wireless_process_ioctl were modified to take a network namespace argument, and deal with it. vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their hooks will receive a network namespace argument. So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces. For now the ifindex generator is left global. Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else we will have corner case problems with migration when we get that far. At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when you change namespaces, and the like. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespaceEric W. Biederman
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace. It modifies the global variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace. The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument, and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument. This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces. Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents that are relevant to a single network namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NEIGH]: Netlink notificationsThomas Graf
Currently neighbour event notifications are limited to update notifications and only sent if the ARP daemon is enabled. This patch extends the existing notification code by also reporting neighbours being removed due to gc or administratively and removes the dependency on the ARP daemon. This allows to keep track of neighbour states without periodically fetching the complete neighbour table. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NEIGH]: Combine neighbour cleanup and releaseThomas Graf
Introduces neigh_cleanup_and_release() to be used after a neighbour has been removed from its neighbour table. Serves as preparation to add event notifications. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-26[NET]: is_power_of_2 in net/core/neighbour.cvignesh babu
Replacing n & (n - 1) for power of 2 check by is_power_of_2(n) Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-20mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them either. This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create() completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves, or the documentation references). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-06-07[NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies constPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NEIGH]: Use rtnl registration interfaceThomas Graf
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>