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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/netlink.h, branch v2.6.16.15</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>[NETLINK]: Fix a severe bug</title>
<updated>2006-02-10T00:43:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Kuznetsov</name>
<email>kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru</email>
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<published>2006-02-10T00:40:11+00:00</published>
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netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink.
Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket,
so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be,
and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock
of rtnetlink.

Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional
argument to netlink_attachskb().

A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed
to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even
have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases:
1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot
   wait for buffer space.
2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered
   to some recipients.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov &lt;kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink.
Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket,
so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be,
and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock
of rtnetlink.

Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional
argument to netlink_attachskb().

A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed
to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even
have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases:
1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot
   wait for buffer space.
2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered
   to some recipients.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov &lt;kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface</title>
<updated>2005-11-10T01:26:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
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<published>2005-11-10T01:25:51+00:00</published>
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Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and
attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible
with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety,
this interface features attribute validation capabilities,
simplified message contstruction, and documentation.

The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone
and easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and
attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible
with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety,
this interface features attribute validation capabilities,
simplified message contstruction, and documentation.

The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone
and easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1</title>
<updated>2005-10-08T22:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-07T06:46:04+00:00</published>
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 - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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 - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[NETLINK]: Reserve a slot for NETLINK_GENERIC.</title>
<updated>2005-09-15T03:52:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@sunset.davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2005-09-15T03:52:37+00:00</published>
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As requested by Jamal.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As requested by Jamal.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NET]: Add netlink connector.</title>
<updated>2005-09-12T02:15:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Evgeniy Polyakov</name>
<email>johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-12T02:15:07+00:00</published>
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Kernel connector - new userspace &lt;-&gt; kernel space easy to use
communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
message bus using netlink as it's backend.  Connector was created to
eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
direction.

Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
one of it's backends netlink based network.  One must register
callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.

From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:

	socket();
	bind();
	send();
	recv();

But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
handling...  Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:

int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);

struct cb_id
{
	__u32			idx;
	__u32			val;
};

idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
connector.h for in-kernel usage.  void (*callback) (void *) - is a
callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
will be received by connector core.

Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
users.

Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.

[ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
  Andrew Morton -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov &lt;johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Kernel connector - new userspace &lt;-&gt; kernel space easy to use
communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
message bus using netlink as it's backend.  Connector was created to
eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
direction.

Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
one of it's backends netlink based network.  One must register
callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.

From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:

	socket();
	bind();
	send();
	recv();

But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
handling...  Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:

int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);

struct cb_id
{
	__u32			idx;
	__u32			val;
};

idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
connector.h for in-kernel usage.  void (*callback) (void *) - is a
callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
will be received by connector core.

Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
users.

Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.

[ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
  Andrew Morton -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov &lt;johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NETLINK]: Fix sparse warnings</title>
<updated>2005-08-29T23:01:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@mandriva.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-08-16T22:02:15+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@mandriva.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@mandriva.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create</title>
<updated>2005-08-29T23:01:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2005-08-15T19:33:26+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NETLINK]: Add set/getsockopt options to support more than 32 groups</title>
<updated>2005-08-29T23:01:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2005-08-15T19:32:15+00:00</published>
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NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP/NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIP are used to join/leave
groups, NETLINK_PKTINFO is used to enable nl_pktinfo control messages
for received packets to get the extended destination group number.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP/NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIP are used to join/leave
groups, NETLINK_PKTINFO is used to enable nl_pktinfo control messages
for received packets to get the extended destination group number.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NETLINK]: Use group numbers instead of bitmasks internally</title>
<updated>2005-08-29T23:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2005-08-15T02:27:50+00:00</published>
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Using the group number allows increasing the number of groups without
beeing limited by the size of the bitmask. It introduces one limitation
for netlink users: messages can't be broadcasted to multiple groups anymore,
however this feature was never used inside the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Using the group number allows increasing the number of groups without
beeing limited by the size of the bitmask. It introduces one limitation
for netlink users: messages can't be broadcasted to multiple groups anymore,
however this feature was never used inside the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NETLINK]: Remove unused groups member from struct netlink_skb_parms</title>
<updated>2005-08-29T23:00:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick McHardy</name>
<email>kaber@trash.net</email>
</author>
<published>2005-08-15T02:26:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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