linux-toradex.git/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h, branch v4.16-rc4

dev: advertise the new ifindex when the netns iface changes

2018-01-29T17:23:52+00:00

The goal is to let the user follow an interface that moves to another
netns.

CC: Jiri Benc 
CC: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Reviewed-by: Jiri Benc 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: core: Expose number of link up/down transitions

2018-01-22T20:42:05+00:00

Expose the number of times the link has been going UP or DOWN, and
update the "carrier_changes" counter to be the sum of these two events.
While at it, also update the sysfs-class-net documentation to cover:
carrier_changes (3.15), carrier_up_count (4.16) and carrier_down_count
(4.16)

Signed-off-by: David Decotigny 
[Florian:
* rebase
* add documentation
* merge carrier_changes with up/down counters]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net/core: Add drop counters to VF statistics

2018-01-09T05:40:48+00:00

Modern hardware can decide to drop packets going to/from a VF.
Add receive and transmit drop counters to be displayed at hypervisor
layer in iproute2 per VF statistics.

Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev 
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed

rtnetlink: use netnsid to query interface

2017-11-05T12:49:17+00:00

Currently, when an application gets netnsid from the kernel (for example as
the result of RTM_GETLINK call on one end of the veth pair), it's not much
useful. There's no reliable way to get to the netns fd from the netnsid, nor
does any kernel API accept netnsid.

Extend the RTM_GETLINK call to also accept netnsid. It will operate on the
netns with the given netnsid in such case. Of course, the calling process
needs to have enough capabilities in the target name space; for now, require
CAP_NET_ADMIN. This can be relaxed in the future.

To signal to the calling process that the kernel understood the new
IFLA_IF_NETNSID attribute in the query, it will include it in the response.
This is needed to detect older kernels, as they will just ignore
IFLA_IF_NETNSID and query in the current name space.

This patch implemetns IFLA_IF_NETNSID only for get and dump. For set
operations, this can be extended later.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2017-11-04T00:26:51+00:00

Files removed in 'net-next' had their license header updated
in 'net'.  We take the remove from 'net-next'.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipvlan: implement VEPA mode

2017-10-29T09:39:57+00:00

This is very similar to the Macvlan VEPA mode, however, there is some
difference. IPvlan uses the mac-address of the lower device, so the VEPA
mode has implications of ICMP-redirects for packets destined for its
immediate neighbors sharing same master since the packets will have same
source and dest mac. The external switch/router will send redirect msg.

Having said that, this will be useful tool in terms of debugging
since IPvlan will not switch packets within its slaves and rely completely
on the external entity as intended in 802.1Qbg.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipvlan: introduce 'private' attribute for all existing modes.

2017-10-29T09:39:57+00:00

IPvlan has always operated in bridge mode. However there are scenarios
where each slave should be able to talk through the master device but
not necessarily across each other. Think of an environment where each
of a namespace is a private and independant customer. In this scenario
the machine which is hosting these namespaces neither want to tell who
their neighbor is nor the individual namespaces care to talk to neighbor
on short-circuited network path.

This patch implements the mode that is very similar to the 'private' mode
in macvlan where individual slaves can send and receive traffic through
the master device, just that they can not talk among slave devices.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bridge: add new BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS port flag to suppress arp and nd flood

2017-10-09T04:12:04+00:00

This patch adds a new bridge port flag BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS to
suppress arp and nd flood on bridge ports. It implements
rfc7432, section 10.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7432#section-10
for ethernet VPN deployments. It is similar to the existing
BR_PROXYARP* flags but has a few semantic differences to conform
to EVPN standard. Unlike the existing flags, this new flag suppresses
flood of all neigh discovery packets (arp and nd) to tunnel ports.
Supports both vlan filtering and non-vlan filtering bridges.

In case of EVPN, it is mainly used to avoid flooding
of arp and nd packets to tunnel ports like vxlan.

This patch adds netlink and sysfs support to set this bridge port
flag.

Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

dev: advertise the new nsid when the netns iface changes

2017-10-05T01:04:41+00:00

x-netns interfaces are bound to two netns: the link netns and the upper
netns. Usually, this kind of interfaces is created in the link netns and
then moved to the upper netns. At the end, the interface is visible only
in the upper netns. The link nsid is advertised via netlink in the upper
netns, thus the user always knows where is the link part.

There is no such mechanism in the link netns. When the interface is moved
to another netns, the user cannot "follow" it.
This patch adds a new netlink attribute which helps to follow an interface
which moves to another netns. When the interface is unregistered, the new
nsid is advertised. If the interface is a x-netns interface (ie
rtnl_link_ops->get_link_net is defined), the nsid is allocated if needed.

CC: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller