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Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]
2bad35b7c9 netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
dev can be NULL in ip[6]_frag_reasm for skb's coming from RAW sockets.

Quagga's OSPFD sends fragmented packets on a RAW socket, when netfilter
conntrack reassembles them on the OUTPUT path you hit this code path.

You can test it with something like "hping2 -0 -d 2000 -f AA.BB.CC.DD"

With help from Jarek Poplawski.

Signed-off-by: Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 23:26:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6d9f239a1e net: '&' redux
I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
compilation.

So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
handler, it was never needed in fact.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 18:21:05 -08:00
Jianjun Kong
fd3f8c4cb6 net: clean up net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c tcp_timer.c ip_input.c
Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 02:47:38 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
673d57e723 net: replace NIPQUAD() in net/ipv4/ net/ipv6/
Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-31 00:53:57 -07:00
Alan Cox
113aa838ec net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts
Clean up the various different email addresses of mine listed in the code
to a single current and valid address. As Dave says his network merges
for 2.6.28 are now done this seems a good point to send them in where
they won't risk disrupting real changes.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
547b792cac net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
Removes legacy reinvent-the-wheel type thing. The generic
machinery integrates much better to automated debugging aids
such as kerneloops.org (and others), and is unambiguous due to
better naming. Non-intuively BUG_TRAP() is actually equal to
WARN_ON() rather than BUG_ON() though some might actually be
promoted to BUG_ON() but I left that to future.

I could make at least one BUILD_BUG_ON conversion.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
c5346fe396 mib: add net to IP_ADD_STATS_BH
Very simple - only ip_evictor (fragments) requires such.
This patch ends up the IP_XXX_STATS patching.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:20:33 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
7c73a6faff mib: add net to IP_INC_STATS_BH
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:20:11 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
84a3aa000e ipv4: prepare net initialization for IP accounting
Some places, that deal with IP statistics already have where to
get a struct net from, but use it directly, without declaring
a separate variable on the stack.

So, save this net on the stack for future IP_XXX_STATS macros.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-16 20:19:08 -07:00
David S. Miller
1b63ba8a86 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
2008-06-28 01:19:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
9a375803fe inet fragments: fix race between inet_frag_find and inet_frag_secret_rebuild
The problem is that while we work w/o the inet_frags.lock even
read-locked the secret rebuild timer may occur (on another CPU, since
BHs are still disabled in the inet_frag_find) and change the rnd seed
for ipv4/6 fragments.

It was caused by my patch fd9e63544c
([INET]: Omit double hash calculations in xxx_frag_intern) late 
in the 2.6.24 kernel, so this should probably be queued to -stable.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-27 20:06:08 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
0b04082995 net: remove CVS keywords
This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time
from comments.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-11 21:00:38 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
7d291ebb83 inet: Register fragmentation some ctls at read-only root.
Parts of fragments-related sysctls are read-only, but this is
done by cloning all the tables and dropping write-bits from
mode. Do the same but with read-only root.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-19 13:53:02 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
0a64b4b811 inet: Rename fragmentation sysctl-related functions/variables.
The fragments sysctls also contains some, that are to be
visible, but read-only in net namespaces.

The naming in net/core/sysctl_net_core.c is - tables, that are
to be registered in namespaces have a "ns" word in their names.
So rename ones in ipv4/ip_fragment.c and ipv6/reassembly.c to
fit this.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-19 13:51:29 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
a7d632b6b4 [IPV4]: Use NIPQUAD_FMT to format ipv4 addresses.
And use %u to format port.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-14 04:09:00 -07:00
Joe Perches
bc578a54f0 [NET]: Rename inet_frag.h identifiers COMPLETE, FIRST_IN, LAST_IN to INET_FRAG_*
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 03:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> they should all be renamed.

Done for include/net and net

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-28 16:35:27 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c346dca108 [NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.
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>
2008-03-26 04:39:53 +09:00
Denis V. Lunev
cb84663e4d [NETNS]: Process IP layer in the context of the correct namespace.
Replace all the rest of the init_net with a proper net on the IP layer.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-24 15:31:00 -07:00
Phil Oester
12b101555f [IPV4]: Fix null dereference in ip_defrag
Been seeing occasional panics in my testing of 2.6.25-rc in ip_defrag.
Offending line in ip_defrag is here:

	net = skb->dev->nd_net

where dev is NULL.  Bisected the problem down to commit
ac18e7509e ([NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the
inet_frag_queue lookup work in namespaces).  

Below patch (idea from Patrick McHardy) fixes the problem for me.

Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-21 15:01:50 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
81566e8322 [NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the pernet subsystem for fragments.
On namespace start we mainly prepare the ctl variables.

When the namespace is stopped we have to kill all the fragments that
point to this namespace.  The inet_frags_exit_net() handles it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:40 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
3140c25c82 [NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the LRU list per namespace.
The inet_frags.lru_list is used for evicting only, so we have
to make it per-namespace, to evict only those fragments, who's
namespace exceeded its high threshold, but not the whole hash.
Besides, this helps to avoid long loops  in evictor.

The spinlock is not per-namespace because it protects the
hash table as well, which is global.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:39 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
3b4bc4a2bf [NETNS][FRAGS]: Isolate the secret interval from namespaces.
Since we have one hashtable to lookup the fragment, having
different secret_interval-s for hash rebuild doesn't make
sense, so move this one to inet_frags.

The inet_frags_ctl becomes empty after this, so remove it.
The appropriate ctl table is kept read-only in namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:39 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
e31e0bdc7e [NETNS][FRAGS]: Make thresholds work in namespaces.
This is the same as with the timeout variable.

Currently, after exceeding the high threshold _all_
the fragments are evicted, but it will be fixed in
later patch.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:38 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b2fd5321dd [NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the net.ipv4.ipfrag_timeout work in namespaces.
Move it to the netns_frags, adjust the usage and
make the appropriate ctl table writable.

Now fragment, that live in different namespaces can
live for different times.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:37 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
e4a2d5c2bc [NETNS][FRAGS]: Duplicate sysctl tables for new namespaces.
Each namespace has to have own tables to tune their
different parameters, so duplicate the tables and
register them.

All the tables in sub-namespaces are temporarily made
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:37 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
6ddc082223 [NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the mem counter per-namespace.
This is also simple, but introduces more changes, since
then mem counter is altered in more places.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:36 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
e5a2bb842c [NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the nqueues counter per-namespace.
This is simple - just move the variable from struct inet_frags
to struct netns_frags and adjust the usage appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:35 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
ac18e7509e [NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the inet_frag_queue lookup work in namespaces.
Since fragment management code is consolidated, we cannot have the
pointer from inet_frag_queue to struct net, since we must know what
king of fragment this is.

So, I introduce the netns_frags structure. This one is currently
empty, but will be eventually filled with per-namespace
attributes. Each inet_frag_queue is tagged with this one.

The conntrack_reasm is not "netns-izated", so it has one static
netns_frags instance to keep working in init namespace.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:34 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
8d8354d2fb [NETNS][FRAGS]: Move ctl tables around.
This is a preparation for sysctl netns-ization.
Move the ctl tables to the files, where the tuning
variables reside. Plus make the helpers to register
the tables.

This will simplify the later patches and will keep
similar things closer to each other.

ipv4, ipv6 and conntrack_reasm are patched differently,
but the result is all the tables are in appropriate files.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:10:34 -08:00
David Howells
45542479fb [NET]: Fix uninitialised variable in ip_frag_reasm()
Fix uninitialised variable in ip_frag_reasm().  err should be set to
-ENOMEM if the initial call of skb_clone() fails.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 21:37:22 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
c95477090a [INET]: Consolidate frag queues freeing
Since we now allocate the queues in inet_fragment.c, we
can safely free it in the same place. The ->destructor
callback thus becomes optional for inet_frags.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:48:26 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
48d6005638 [INET]: Remove no longer needed ->equal callback
Since this callback is used to check for conflicts in
hashtable when inserting a newly created frag queue, we can
do the same by checking for matching the queue with the 
argument, used to create one.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:47:56 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
abd6523d15 [INET]: Consolidate xxx_find() in fragment management
Here we need another callback ->match to check whether the
entry found in hash matches the key passed. The key used 
is the same as the creation argument for inet_frag_create.

Yet again, this ->match is the same for netfilter and ipv6.
Running a frew steps forward - this callback will later
replace the ->equal one.

Since the inet_frag_find() uses the already consolidated
inet_frag_create() remove the xxx_frag_create from protocol
codes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:47:21 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
c6fda28229 [INET]: Consolidate xxx_frag_create()
This one uses the xxx_frag_intern() and xxx_frag_alloc()
routines, which are already consolidated, so remove them
from protocol code (as promised).

The ->constructor callback is used to init the rest of
the frag queue and it is the same for netfilter and ipv6.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:46:47 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
e521db9d79 [INET]: Consolidate xxx_frag_alloc()
Just perform the kzalloc() allocation and setup common
fields in the inet_frag_queue(). Then return the result
to the caller to initialize the rest.

The inet_frag_alloc() may return NULL, so check the 
return value before doing the container_of(). This looks 
ugly, but the xxx_frag_alloc() will be removed soon.

The xxx_expire() timer callbacks are patches, 
because the argument is now the inet_frag_queue, not 
the protocol specific queue.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:45:23 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
2588fe1d78 [INET]: Consolidate xxx_frag_intern
This routine checks for the existence of a given entry
in the hash table and inserts the new one if needed.

The ->equal callback is used to compare two frag_queue-s
together, but this one is temporary and will be removed
later. The netfilter code and the ipv6 one use the same
routine to compare frags.

The inet_frag_intern() always returns non-NULL pointer,
so convert the inet_frag_queue into protocol specific
one (with the container_of) without any checks.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:44:34 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
fd9e63544c [INET]: Omit double hash calculations in xxx_frag_intern
Since the hash value is already calculated in xxx_find, we can 
simply use it later. This is already done in netfilter code, 
so make the same in ipv4 and ipv6.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-17 19:43:37 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
f1673ca52c [INET]: kmalloc+memset -> kzalloc in frag_alloc_queue
kmalloc + memset -> kzalloc in frag_alloc_queue

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:53:13 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
762cc40801 [INET]: Consolidate the xxx_put
These ones use the generic data types too, so move
them in one place.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
4b6cb5d8e3 [INET]: Small cleanup for xxx_put after evictor consolidation
After the evictor code is consolidated there is no need in
passing the extra pointer to the xxx_put() functions.

The only place when it made sense was the evictor code itself.

Maybe this change must got with the previous (or with the
next) patch, but I try to make them shorter as much as
possible to simplify the review (but they are still large
anyway), so this change goes in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
8e7999c44e [INET]: Consolidate the xxx_evictor
The evictors collect some statistics for ipv4 and ipv6,
so make it return the number of evicted queues and account
them all at once in the caller.

The XXX_ADD_STATS_BH() macros are just for this case,
but maybe there are places in code, that can make use of
them as well.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:42 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
1e4b82873a [INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_destroy
To make in possible we need to know the exact frag queue
size for inet_frags->mem management and two callbacks:

 * to destoy the skb (optional, used in conntracks only)
 * to free the queue itself (mandatory, but later I plan to
   move the allocation and the destruction of frag_queues
   into the common place, so this callback will most likely
   be optional too).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:42 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
321a3a99e4 [INET]: Consolidate xxx_the secret_rebuild
This code works with the generic data types as well, so
move this into inet_fragment.c

This move makes it possible to hide the secret_timer
management and the secret_rebuild routine completely in
the inet_fragment.c

Introduce the ->hashfn() callback in inet_frags() to get
the hashfun for a given inet_frag_queue() object.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:41 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
277e650ddf [INET]: Consolidate the xxx_frag_kill
Since now all the xxx_frag_kill functions now work
with the generic inet_frag_queue data type, this can
be moved into a common place.

The xxx_unlink() code is moved as well.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:41 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
04128f233f [INET]: Collect common frag sysctl variables together
Some sysctl variables are used to tune the frag queues
management and it will be useful to work with them in
a common way in the future, so move them into one
structure, moreover they are the same for all the frag
management codes.

I don't place them in the existing inet_frags object,
introduced in the previous patch for two reasons:

 1. to keep them in the __read_mostly section;
 2. not to export the whole inet_frags objects outside.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
7eb95156d9 [INET]: Collect frag queues management objects together
There are some objects that are common in all the places
which are used to keep track of frag queues, they are:

 * hash table
 * LRU list
 * rw lock
 * rnd number for hash function
 * the number of queues
 * the amount of memory occupied by queues
 * secret timer

Move all this stuff into one structure (struct inet_frags)
to make it possible use them uniformly in the future. Like
with the previous patch this mostly consists of hunks like

-    write_lock(&ipfrag_lock);
+    write_lock(&ip4_frags.lock);

To address the issue with exporting the number of queues and
the amount of memory occupied by queues outside the .c file
they are declared in, I introduce a couple of helpers.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
5ab11c98d3 [INET]: Move common fields from frag_queues in one place.
Introduce the struct inet_frag_queue in include/net/inet_frag.h
file and place there all the common fields from three structs:

 * struct ipq in ipv4/ip_fragment.c
 * struct nf_ct_frag6_queue in nf_conntrack_reasm.c
 * struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c

After this, replace these fields on appropriate structures with
this structure instance and fix the users to use correct names
i.e. hunks like

-    atomic_dec(&fq->refcnt);
+    atomic_dec(&fq->q.refcnt);

(these occupy most of the patch)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:38 -07:00
Herbert Xu
776c729e8d [IPV4]: Change ip_defrag to return an integer
Now that ip_frag always returns the packet given to it on input, we can
change it to return an integer indicating error instead.  This patch does
that and updates all its callers accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:25 -07:00
Herbert Xu
1706d58763 [IPV4]: Make ip_defrag return the same packet
This patch is a bit of a hack.  However it is worth it if you consider that
this is the only reason why we have to carry around the struct sk_buff **
pointers in netfilter.

It makes ip_defrag always return the packet that was given to it on input.
It does this by cloning the packet and replacing its original contents with
the head fragment if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 12:26:25 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
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 16:49:10 -07:00