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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jiri Benc
cdbe7c2d6d nfnetlink: do not ack malformed messages
Commit 0628b123c9 ("netfilter: nfnetlink: add batch support and use it
from nf_tables") introduced a bug leading to various crashes in netlink_ack
when netlink message with invalid nlmsg_len was sent by an unprivileged
user.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-08 15:12:11 -05:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
0628b123c9 netfilter: nfnetlink: add batch support and use it from nf_tables
This patch adds a batch support to nfnetlink. Basically, it adds
two new control messages:

* NFNL_MSG_BATCH_BEGIN, that indicates the beginning of a batch,
  the nfgenmsg->res_id indicates the nfnetlink subsystem ID.

* NFNL_MSG_BATCH_END, that results in the invocation of the
  ss->commit callback function. If not specified or an error
  ocurred in the batch, the ss->abort function is invoked
  instead.

The end message represents the commit operation in nftables, the
lack of end message results in an abort. This patch also adds the
.call_batch function that is only called from the batch receival
path.

This patch adds atomic rule updates and dumps based on
bitmask generations. This allows to atomically commit a set of
rule-set updates incrementally without altering the internal
state of existing nf_tables expressions/matches/targets.

The idea consists of using a generation cursor of 1 bit and
a bitmask of 2 bits per rule. Assuming the gencursor is 0,
then the genmask (expressed as a bitmask) can be interpreted
as:

00 active in the present, will be active in the next generation.
01 inactive in the present, will be active in the next generation.
10 active in the present, will be deleted in the next generation.
 ^
 gencursor

Once you invoke the transition to the next generation, the global
gencursor is updated:

00 active in the present, will be active in the next generation.
01 active in the present, needs to zero its future, it becomes 00.
10 inactive in the present, delete now.
^
gencursor

If a dump is in progress and nf_tables enters a new generation,
the dump will stop and return -EBUSY to let userspace know that
it has to retry again. In order to invalidate dumps, a global
genctr counter is increased everytime nf_tables enters a new
generation.

This new operation can be used from the user-space utility
that controls the firewall, eg.

nft -f restore

The rule updates contained in `file' will be applied atomically.

cat file
-----
add filter INPUT ip saddr 1.1.1.1 counter accept #1
del filter INPUT ip daddr 2.2.2.2 counter drop   #2
-EOF-

Note that the rule 1 will be inactive until the transition to the
next generation, the rule 2 will be evicted in the next generation.

There is a penalty during the rule update due to the branch
misprediction in the packet matching framework. But that should be
quickly resolved once the iteration over the commit list that
contain rules that require updates is finished.

Event notification happens once the rule-set update has been
committed. So we skip notifications is case the rule-set update
is aborted, which can happen in case that the rule-set is tested
to apply correctly.

This patch squashed the following patches from Pablo:

* nf_tables: atomic rule updates and dumps
* nf_tables: get rid of per rule list_head for commits
* nf_tables: use per netns commit list
* nfnetlink: add batch support and use it from nf_tables
* nf_tables: all rule updates are transactional
* nf_tables: attach replacement rule after stale one
* nf_tables: do not allow deletion/replacement of stale rules
* nf_tables: remove unused NFTA_RULE_FLAGS

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2013-10-14 18:01:01 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
3ab1f683bf nfnetlink: add support for memory mapped netlink
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-19 14:58:36 -04:00
Patrick McHardy
ec464e5dc5 netfilter: rename netlink related "pid" variables to "portid"
Get rid of the confusing mix of pid and portid and use portid consistently
for all netlink related socket identities.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-19 14:58:36 -04:00
Hong zhi guo
573ce260b3 net-next: replace obsolete NLMSG_* with type safe nlmsg_*
Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-28 14:25:25 -04:00
Paul Bolle
9df9e78323 netfilter: nfnetlink: silence warning if CONFIG_PROVE_RCU isn't set
Since commit c14b78e7de ("netfilter:
nfnetlink: add mutex per subsystem") building nefnetlink.o without
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU set, triggers this GCC warning:
    net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:65:22: warning: ‘nfnl_get_lock’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]

The cause of that warning is, in short, that rcu_lockdep_assert()
compiles away if CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is not set. Silence this warning by
open coding nfnl_get_lock() in the sole place it was called, which
allows to remove that function.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2013-03-04 14:45:36 +01:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
c14b78e7de netfilter: nfnetlink: add mutex per subsystem
This patch replaces the global lock to one lock per subsystem.
The per-subsystem lock avoids that processes operating
with different subsystems are synchronized.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2013-02-05 04:07:35 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman
df008c91f8 net: Allow userns root to control llc, netfilter, netlink, packet, and xfrm
Allow an unpriviled user who has created a user namespace, and then
created a network namespace to effectively use the new network
namespace, by reducing capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) and
capable(CAP_NET_RAW) calls to be ns_capable(net->user_ns,
CAP_NET_ADMIN), or capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW) calls.

Allow creation of af_key sockets.
Allow creation of llc sockets.
Allow creation of af_packet sockets.

Allow sending xfrm netlink control messages.

Allow binding to netlink multicast groups.
Allow sending to netlink multicast groups.
Allow adding and dropping netlink multicast groups.
Allow sending to all netlink multicast groups and port ids.

Allow reading the netfilter SO_IP_SET socket option.
Allow sending netfilter netlink messages.
Allow setting and getting ip_vs netfilter socket options.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-11-18 20:32:45 -05:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
9f00d9776b netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create
This patch defines netlink_kernel_create as a wrapper function of
__netlink_kernel_create to hide the struct module *me parameter
(which seems to be THIS_MODULE in all existing netlink subsystems).

Suggested by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-09-08 18:46:30 -04:00
David S. Miller
d3a5ea6e21 Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next 2012-07-07 16:18:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
c90a9bb907 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-07-05 03:44:25 -07:00
Tomasz Bursztyka
59560a38a3 netfilter: nfnetlink: check callbacks before using those in nfnetlink_rcv_msg
nfnetlink_rcv_msg() might call a NULL callback which will cause NULL pointer
dereference.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-07-04 19:47:53 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
03292745b0 netlink: add nlk->netlink_bind hook for module auto-loading
This patch adds a hook in the binding path of netlink.

This is used by ctnetlink to allow module autoloading for the case
in which one user executes:

 conntrack -E

So far, this resulted in nfnetlink loaded, but not
nf_conntrack_netlink.

I have received in the past many complains on this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29 16:46:06 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
a31f2d17b3 netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_create
This patch adds the following structure:

struct netlink_kernel_cfg {
        unsigned int    groups;
        void            (*input)(struct sk_buff *skb);
        struct mutex    *cb_mutex;
};

That can be passed to netlink_kernel_create to set optional configurations
for netlink kernel sockets.

I've populated this structure by looking for NULL and zero parameters at the
existing code. The remaining parameters that always need to be set are still
left in the original interface.

That includes optional parameters for the netlink socket creation. This allows
easy extensibility of this interface in the future.

This patch also adapts all callers to use this new interface.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-29 16:46:02 -07:00
Tomasz Bursztyka
4009e18851 netfilter: nfnetlink: fix missing rcu_read_unlock in nfnetlink_rcv_msg
Bug added in commit 6b75e3e8d6 (netfilter: nfnetlink: add RCU in
nfnetlink_rcv_msg())

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-06-29 13:04:16 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
95c9617472 net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int
Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
David Howells
9ffc93f203 Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c49c41a413 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security
* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security:
  capabilities: remove __cap_full_set definition
  security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
  ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat
  capabilities: remove task_ns_* functions
  capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call
  capabilities: style only - move capable below ns_capable
  capabilites: introduce new has_ns_capabilities_noaudit
  capabilities: call has_ns_capability from has_capability
  capabilities: remove all _real_ interfaces
  capabilities: introduce security_capable_noaudit
  capabilities: reverse arguments to security_capable
  capabilities: remove the task from capable LSM hook entirely
  selinux: sparse fix: fix several warnings in the security server cod
  selinux: sparse fix: fix warnings in netlink code
  selinux: sparse fix: eliminate warnings for selinuxfs
  selinux: sparse fix: declare selinux_disable() in security.h
  selinux: sparse fix: move selinux_complete_init
  selinux: sparse fix: make selinux_secmark_refcount static
  SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()

Manually fix up a semantic mis-merge wrt security_netlink_recv():

 - the interface was removed in commit fd77846152 ("security: remove
   the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()")

 - a new user of it appeared in commit a38f7907b9 ("crypto: Add
   userspace configuration API")

causing no automatic merge conflict, but Eric Paris pointed out the
issue.
2012-01-14 18:36:33 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
cf778b00e9 net: reintroduce missing rcu_assign_pointer() calls
commit a9b3cd7f32 (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to
RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a
complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,
y).

We miss needed barriers, even on x86, when y is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-12 12:26:56 -08:00
Eric Paris
fd77846152 security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective
capabilities from the skb that was being received.  Today we instead get
the capabilities from the current task.  This has rendered the entire
purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the
capable() call.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-05 18:53:01 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
a9b3cd7f32 rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER
When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier
is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon
change to not handle the special case.

Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value.

//smpl
@@ expression P; @@

- rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL)
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL)

// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-02 04:29:23 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
6b75e3e8d6 netfilter: nfnetlink: add RCU in nfnetlink_rcv_msg()
Goal of this patch is to permit nfnetlink providers not mandate
nfnl_mutex being held while nfnetlink_rcv_msg() calls them.

If struct nfnl_callback contains a non NULL call_rcu(), then
nfnetlink_rcv_msg() will use it instead of call() field, holding
rcu_read_lock instead of nfnl_mutex

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
CC: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2011-07-18 16:08:07 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
654d0fbdc8 netfilter: cleanup printk messages
Make sure all printk messages have a severity level.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-05-13 15:02:08 +02:00
Patrick McHardy
6291055465 Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_REJECT.c
	net/netfilter/xt_limit.c

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-04-20 16:02:01 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
37b7ef7203 netfilter: ctnetlink: fix reliable event delivery if message building fails
This patch fixes a bug that allows to lose events when reliable
event delivery mode is used, ie. if NETLINK_BROADCAST_SEND_ERROR
and NETLINK_RECV_NO_ENOBUFS socket options are set.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-20 14:29:03 -07:00
Zhitong Wang
c01ae818a3 netfilter: remove unused headers in net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
Remove unused headers in net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c

Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-03-17 16:28:25 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
cd8c20b650 netfilter: nfnetlink: netns support
Make nfnl socket per-petns.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-01-13 16:02:14 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
3993832464 netfilter: nfnetlink: constify message attributes and headers
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-25 16:07:58 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
e34d5c1a4f netfilter: conntrack: replace notify chain by function pointer
This patch removes the notify chain infrastructure and replace it
by a simple function pointer. This issue has been mentioned in the
mailing list several times: the use of the notify chain adds
too much overhead for something that is only used by ctnetlink.

This patch also changes nfnetlink_send(). It seems that gfp_any()
returns GFP_KERNEL for user-context request, like those via
ctnetlink, inside the RCU read-side section which is not valid.
Using GFP_KERNEL is also evil since netlink may schedule(),
this leads to "scheduling while atomic" bug reports.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2009-06-03 10:32:06 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
f49c857ff2 netfilter: nfnetlink: cleanup for nfnetlink_rcv_msg() function
This patch cleans up the message handling path in two aspects:

 * it uses NLMSG_LENGTH() instead of NLMSG_SPACE() like rtnetlink
does in this case to check if there is enough room for the
Netlink/nfnetlink headers. No need to check for the padding room.

 * it removes a redundant header size checking that has been
 already do at the beginning of the function.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2009-06-02 20:03:33 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
a0142733a7 netfilter: nfnetlink: return ENOMEM if we fail to create netlink socket
With this patch, nfnetlink returns -ENOMEM instead of -EPERM if we
fail to create the nfnetlink netlink socket during the module
loading. This is exactly what rtnetlink does in this case.

Ideally, it would be better if we propagate the error that has
happened in netlink_kernel_create(), however, this function still
does not implement this yet.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-04-17 17:48:44 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
dd5b6ce6fd nefilter: nfnetlink: add nfnetlink_set_err and use it in ctnetlink
This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink
broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the
message building.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-23 13:21:06 +01:00
Johannes Berg
95a5afca4a net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)
Some code here depends on CONFIG_KMOD to not try to load
protocol modules or similar, replace by CONFIG_MODULES
where more than just request_module depends on CONFIG_KMOD
and and also use try_then_request_module in ebtables.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
e6a7d3c04f netfilter: ctnetlink: remove bogus module dependency between ctnetlink and nf_nat
This patch removes the module dependency between ctnetlink and
nf_nat by means of an indirect call that is initialized when
nf_nat is loaded. Now, nf_conntrack_netlink only requires
nf_conntrack and nfnetlink.

This patch puts nfnetlink_parse_nat_setup_hook into the
nf_conntrack_core to avoid dependencies between ctnetlink,
nf_conntrack_ipv4 and nf_conntrack_ipv6.

This patch also introduces the function ctnetlink_change_nat
that is only invoked from the creation path. Actually, the
nat handling cannot be invoked from the update path since
this is not allowed. By introducing this function, we remove
the useless nat handling in the update path and we avoid
deadlock-prone code.

This patch also adds the required EAGAIN logic for nfnetlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-14 11:58:31 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
b7c6ba6eb1 [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.
Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just
let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal
inside a namespace.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:07 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev
cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
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>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
3b71535f35 [NET]: Make netlink processing routines semi-synchronious (inspired by rtnl) v2
The code in netfilter/nfnetlink.c and in ./net/netlink/genetlink.c looks
like outdated copy/paste from rtnetlink.c. Push them into sync with the
original.

Changes from v1:
- deleted comment in nfnetlink_rcv_msg by request of Patrick McHardy

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:13:32 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e373057828 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: support attribute policies
Add support for automatic checking of per-callback attribute policies.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:33 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
dd82185f2c [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use nlmsg_notify()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:32 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
df6fb868d6 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: convert to generic netlink attribute functions
Get rid of the duplicated rtnetlink macros and use the generic netlink
attribute functions. The old duplicated stuff is moved to a new header
file that exists just for userspace.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:31 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
7c8d4cb419 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: make subsystem and callbacks const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:30 -07:00
Herbert Xu
0cfad07555 [NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue
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>
2007-10-10 16:51:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
b4b510290b [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
this includes the controlling kernel sockets.

This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
to only support the initial network namespace.  Request
by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
that netlink protocol compiled in.

As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.

The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
af65bdfce9 [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:03 -07:00
Thomas Graf
c7bf5f9dc2 [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: netlink_run_queue() already checks for NLM_F_REQUEST
Patrick has made use of netlink_run_queue() in nfnetlink while my patches
have been waiting for net-2.6.22 to open. So this check for NLM_F_REQUEST
can go as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:46 -07:00
Thomas Graf
1d00a4eb42 [NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handler
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>
2007-04-25 22:27:30 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
ac6d141dc7 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: parse attributes with nfattr_parse in nfnetlink_check_attribute
Use nfattr_parse to parse attributes, this patch also modifies the default
behaviour since unknown attributes will be ignored instead of returning
EINVAL. This ensure backward compatibility: new libraries with new
attributes and old kernels can work.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:58 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
f4bc177f0f [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: move EXPORT_SYMBOL declarations next to the exported symbol
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:51 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
8a2e89533a [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove unused includes in nfnetlink.c
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:50 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
ac0f1d9894 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove unrequired check in nfnetlink_get_subsys
subsys_table is initialized to NULL, therefore just returns NULL in case
that it is not set.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:49 -07:00