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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/net/netlink.h, branch v4.13-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>netlink: correctly document nla_put_u64_64bit()</title>
<updated>2017-07-13T16:26:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rolf Eike Beer</name>
<email>eb@emlix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T14:46:43+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions</title>
<updated>2017-04-13T17:58:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T12:34:07+00:00</published>
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Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
(except for some in the core.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Pass the new extended ACK reporting struct to all of the generic
netlink parsing functions. For now, pass NULL in almost all callers
(except for some in the core.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlink: extended ACK reporting</title>
<updated>2017-04-13T17:58:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T12:34:04+00:00</published>
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Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink extended ACK
reporting. All "manual" calls to netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and
thus don't get extended ACK reporting.

Big thanks goes to Pablo Neira Ayuso for not only bringing up the
whole topic at netconf (again) but also coming up with the nlattr
passing trick and various other ideas.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add the base infrastructure and UAPI for netlink extended ACK
reporting. All "manual" calls to netlink_ack() pass NULL for now and
thus don't get extended ACK reporting.

Big thanks goes to Pablo Neira Ayuso for not only bringing up the
whole topic at netconf (again) but also coming up with the nlattr
passing trick and various other ideas.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Ahern &lt;dsa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ipv6: Change notifications for multipath add to RTA_MULTIPATH</title>
<updated>2017-02-05T00:58:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsa@cumulusnetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-02T20:37:10+00:00</published>
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Change ip6_route_multipath_add to send one notifciation with the full
route encoded with RTA_MULTIPATH instead of a series of individual routes.
This is done by adding a skip_notify flag to the nl_info struct. The
flag is used to skip sending of the notification in the fib code that
actually inserts the route. Once the full route has been added, a
notification is generated with all nexthops.

ip6_route_multipath_add handles 3 use cases: new routes, route replace,
and route append. The multipath notification generated needs to be
consistent with the order of the nexthops and it should be consistent
with the order in a FIB dump which means the route with the first nexthop
needs to be used as the route reference. For the first 2 cases (new and
replace), a reference to the route used to send the notification is
obtained by saving the first route added. For the append case, the last
route added is used to loop back to its first sibling route which is
the first nexthop in the multipath route.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Change ip6_route_multipath_add to send one notifciation with the full
route encoded with RTA_MULTIPATH instead of a series of individual routes.
This is done by adding a skip_notify flag to the nl_info struct. The
flag is used to skip sending of the notification in the fib code that
actually inserts the route. Once the full route has been added, a
notification is generated with all nexthops.

ip6_route_multipath_add handles 3 use cases: new routes, route replace,
and route append. The multipath notification generated needs to be
consistent with the order of the nexthops and it should be consistent
with the order in a FIB dump which means the route with the first nexthop
needs to be used as the route reference. For the first 2 cases (new and
replace), a reference to the route used to send the notification is
obtained by saving the first route added. For the append case, the last
route added is used to loop back to its first sibling route which is
the first nexthop in the multipath route.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: revert broken, broken "2-clause nla_ok()"</title>
<updated>2016-12-13T19:54:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-13T19:30:15+00:00</published>
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Commit 4f7df337fe79bba1e4c2d525525d63b5ba186bbd
"netlink: 2-clause nla_ok()" is BROKEN.

First clause tests if "-&gt;nla_len" could even be accessed at all,
it can not possibly be omitted.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Commit 4f7df337fe79bba1e4c2d525525d63b5ba186bbd
"netlink: 2-clause nla_ok()" is BROKEN.

First clause tests if "-&gt;nla_len" could even be accessed at all,
it can not possibly be omitted.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: 2-clause nla_ok()</title>
<updated>2016-12-03T20:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-02T00:59:06+00:00</published>
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nla_ok() consists of 3 clauses:

	1) int rem &gt;= (int)sizeof(struct nlattr)

	2) u16 nla_len &gt;= sizeof(struct nlattr)

	3) u16 nla_len &lt;= int rem

The statement is that clause (1) is redundant.

What it does is ensuring that "rem" is a positive number,
so that in clause (3) positive number will be compared to positive number
with no problems.

However, "u16" fully fits into "int" and integers do not change value
when upcasting even to signed type. Negative integers will be rejected
by clause (3) just fine. Small positive integers will be rejected
by transitivity of comparison operator.

NOTE: all of the above DOES NOT apply to nlmsg_ok() where -&gt;nlmsg_len is
u32(!), so 3 clauses AND A CAST TO INT are necessary.

Obligatory space savings report: -1.6 KB

	$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000* ../vmlinux-001*
	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 3/63 up/down: 35/-1692 (-1657)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	validate_scan_freqs                          142     155     +13
	tcf_em_tree_validate                         867     879     +12
	dcbnl_ieee_del                               328     338     +10
	netlbl_cipsov4_add_common.isra               218     215      -3
		...
	ovs_nla_put_actions                          888     806     -82
	netlbl_cipsov4_add_std                      1648    1566     -82
	nl80211_parse_sched_scan                    2889    2780    -109
	ip_tun_from_nlattr                          3086    2945    -141

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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nla_ok() consists of 3 clauses:

	1) int rem &gt;= (int)sizeof(struct nlattr)

	2) u16 nla_len &gt;= sizeof(struct nlattr)

	3) u16 nla_len &lt;= int rem

The statement is that clause (1) is redundant.

What it does is ensuring that "rem" is a positive number,
so that in clause (3) positive number will be compared to positive number
with no problems.

However, "u16" fully fits into "int" and integers do not change value
when upcasting even to signed type. Negative integers will be rejected
by clause (3) just fine. Small positive integers will be rejected
by transitivity of comparison operator.

NOTE: all of the above DOES NOT apply to nlmsg_ok() where -&gt;nlmsg_len is
u32(!), so 3 clauses AND A CAST TO INT are necessary.

Obligatory space savings report: -1.6 KB

	$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000* ../vmlinux-001*
	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 3/63 up/down: 35/-1692 (-1657)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	validate_scan_freqs                          142     155     +13
	tcf_em_tree_validate                         867     879     +12
	dcbnl_ieee_del                               328     338     +10
	netlbl_cipsov4_add_common.isra               218     215      -3
		...
	ovs_nla_put_actions                          888     806     -82
	netlbl_cipsov4_add_std                      1648    1566     -82
	nl80211_parse_sched_scan                    2889    2780    -109
	ip_tun_from_nlattr                          3086    2945    -141

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: use "unsigned int" in nla_next()</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T03:11:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-19T00:54:35+00:00</published>
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-&gt;nla_len is unsigned entity (it's length after all) and u16,
thus it can't overflow when being aligned into int/unsigned int.

(nlmsg_next has the same code, but I didn't yet convince myself
it is correct to do so).

There is pointer arithmetic in this function and offset being
unsigned is better:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/64 up/down: 5/-309 (-304)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	nl80211_set_wiphy                           1444    1449      +5
	team_nl_cmd_options_set                      997     995      -2
	tcf_em_tree_validate                         872     870      -2
	switchdev_port_bridge_setlink                352     350      -2
	switchdev_port_br_afspec                     312     310      -2
	rtm_to_fib_config                            428     426      -2
	qla4xxx_sysfs_ddb_set_param                 2193    2191      -2
	qla4xxx_iface_set_param                     4470    4468      -2
	ovs_nla_free_flow_actions                    152     150      -2
	output_userspace                             518     516      -2
		...
	nl80211_set_reg                              654     649      -5
	validate_scan_freqs                          148     142      -6
	validate_linkmsg                             288     282      -6
	nl80211_parse_connkeys                       489     483      -6
	nlattr_set                                   231     224      -7
	nf_tables_delsetelem                         267     260      -7
	do_setlink                                  3416    3408      -8
	netlbl_cipsov4_add_std                      1672    1659     -13
	nl80211_parse_sched_scan                    2902    2888     -14
	nl80211_trigger_scan                        1738    1720     -18
	do_execute_actions                          2821    2738     -83
	Total: Before=154865355, After=154865051, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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-&gt;nla_len is unsigned entity (it's length after all) and u16,
thus it can't overflow when being aligned into int/unsigned int.

(nlmsg_next has the same code, but I didn't yet convince myself
it is correct to do so).

There is pointer arithmetic in this function and offset being
unsigned is better:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/64 up/down: 5/-309 (-304)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	nl80211_set_wiphy                           1444    1449      +5
	team_nl_cmd_options_set                      997     995      -2
	tcf_em_tree_validate                         872     870      -2
	switchdev_port_bridge_setlink                352     350      -2
	switchdev_port_br_afspec                     312     310      -2
	rtm_to_fib_config                            428     426      -2
	qla4xxx_sysfs_ddb_set_param                 2193    2191      -2
	qla4xxx_iface_set_param                     4470    4468      -2
	ovs_nla_free_flow_actions                    152     150      -2
	output_userspace                             518     516      -2
		...
	nl80211_set_reg                              654     649      -5
	validate_scan_freqs                          148     142      -6
	validate_linkmsg                             288     282      -6
	nl80211_parse_connkeys                       489     483      -6
	nlattr_set                                   231     224      -7
	nf_tables_delsetelem                         267     260      -7
	do_setlink                                  3416    3408      -8
	netlbl_cipsov4_add_std                      1672    1659     -13
	nl80211_parse_sched_scan                    2902    2888     -14
	nl80211_trigger_scan                        1738    1720     -18
	do_execute_actions                          2821    2738     -83
	Total: Before=154865355, After=154865051, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: Add nla_memdup() to wrap kmemdup() use on nlattr</title>
<updated>2016-10-29T18:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Graf</name>
<email>tgraf@suug.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-26T08:53:16+00:00</published>
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Wrap several common instances of:
	kmemdup(nla_data(attr), nla_len(attr), GFP_KERNEL);

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Wrap several common instances of:
	kmemdup(nla_data(attr), nla_len(attr), GFP_KERNEL);

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: kill nla_put_u64()</title>
<updated>2016-05-16T17:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-13T13:25:40+00:00</published>
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This function is not used anymore. nla_put_u64_64bit() should be used
instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This function is not used anymore. nla_put_u64_64bit() should be used
instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libnl: add nla_put_u64_64bit() helper</title>
<updated>2016-04-24T00:13:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Dichtel</name>
<email>nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-22T15:31:22+00:00</published>
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With this function, nla_data() is aligned on a 64-bit area.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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With this function, nla_data() is aligned on a 64-bit area.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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