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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/net/neighbour.h, branch v2.6.26.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-03-28T01:48:56+00:00</updated>
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<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2008-03-28T01:48:56+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

	drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
	drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c
	net/ipv6/ndisc.c
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Conflicts:

	drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
	drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c
	net/ipv6/ndisc.c
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<title>[NET] NETNS: Omit neigh_parms-&gt;net and pneigh_entry-&gt;net without CONFIG_NET_NS.</title>
<updated>2008-03-25T19:39:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YOSHIFUJI Hideaki</name>
<email>yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org</email>
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<published>2008-03-25T18:49:59+00:00</published>
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Introduce neigh_parms/pneigh_entry inlines: neigh_parms_net(), pneigh_net().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &amp;init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;
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Introduce neigh_parms/pneigh_entry inlines: neigh_parms_net(), pneigh_net().
Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &amp;init_net exists.
Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;
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<title>[NEIGH]: Fix race between pneigh deletion and ipv6's ndisc_recv_ns (v3).</title>
<updated>2008-03-24T21:48:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Emelyanov</name>
<email>xemul@openvz.org</email>
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<published>2008-03-24T21:48:59+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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 &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NET] NEIGHBOUR: Remove unpopular neigh_is_connected().</title>
<updated>2008-03-04T06:18:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YOSHIFUJI Hideaki</name>
<email>yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-04T05:55:03+00:00</published>
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neigh_is_connected() is not popular at all, and the only user
drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.c:t3_l2t_update() also have raw (expanded) expression.
Let's expand it and remove the inline function.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;
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neigh_is_connected() is not popular at all, and the only user
drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.c:t3_l2t_update() also have raw (expanded) expression.
Let's expand it and remove the inline function.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki &lt;yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org&gt;
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<title>[ARP]: neigh_parms_put(destroy) are essentially local to core/neighbour.c.</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T23:02:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis V. Lunev</name>
<email>den@openvz.org</email>
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<published>2008-01-24T08:30:58+00:00</published>
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Make them static.

[ Moved the inline before, instead of after, call sites. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Make them static.

[ Moved the inline before, instead of after, call sites. -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NEIGH]: Add a comment describing what a NUD stands for.</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T23:01:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Emelyanov</name>
<email>xemul@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-11T06:37:16+00:00</published>
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When I studied the neighbor code I puzzled over what the NUD can mean
for quite a long time.

Finally I asked Alexey and he said that this was smth like "neighbor
unreachability detection".

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When I studied the neighbor code I puzzled over what the NUD can mean
for quite a long time.

Finally I asked Alexey and he said that this was smth like "neighbor
unreachability detection".

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NEIGH]: Make /proc/net/arp opening consistent with seq_net_open semantics</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T23:01:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis V. Lunev</name>
<email>den@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-01-10T11:53:12+00:00</published>
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seq_open_net requires that first field of the seq-&gt;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 &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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seq_open_net requires that first field of the seq-&gt;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 &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NEIGH]: Remove unused method from include/net/neighbour.h</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T23:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rami Rosen</name>
<email>ramirose@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2007-12-31T07:25:31+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen &lt;ramirose@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen &lt;ramirose@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NETNS]: Modify the neighbour table code so it handles multiple network namespaces</title>
<updated>2008-01-28T23:00:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2008-01-24T08:13:18+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;dlezcano@fr.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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 &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;dlezcano@fr.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>[NEIGH]: Use rtnl registration interface</title>
<updated>2007-04-26T05:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
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<published>2007-03-22T18:50:06+00:00</published>
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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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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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