linux-toradex.git/net/can/gw.c, branch v4.4.13

can: cangw: introduce optional uid to reference created routing jobs

2015-06-09T07:39:49+00:00

Similar to referencing iptables rules by their line number this UID allows to
reference created routing jobs, e.g. to alter configured data modifications.

The UID is an optional non-zero value which can be provided at routing job
creation time. When the UID is set the UID replaces the data modification
configuration as job identification attribute e.g. at job removal time.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde

netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void

2015-01-18T06:03:45+00:00

Contrary to common expectations for an "int" return, these functions
return only a positive value -- if used correctly they cannot even
return 0 because the message header will necessarily be in the skb.

This makes the very common pattern of

  if (genlmsg_end(...) < 0) { ... }

be a whole bunch of dead code. Many places also simply do

  return nlmsg_end(...);

and the caller is expected to deal with it.

This also commonly (at least for me) causes errors, because it is very
common to write

  if (my_function(...))
    /* error condition */

and if my_function() does "return nlmsg_end()" this is of course wrong.

Additionally, there's not a single place in the kernel that actually
needs the message length returned, and if anyone needs it later then
it'll be very easy to just use skb->len there.

Remove this, and make the functions void. This removes a bunch of dead
code as described above. The patch adds lines because I did

-	return nlmsg_end(...);
+	nlmsg_end(...);
+	return 0;

I could have preserved all the function's return values by returning
skb->len, but instead I've audited all the places calling the affected
functions and found that none cared. A few places actually compared
the return value with <= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to < 0 with no change in behaviour, so I opted for the more
efficient version.

One instance of the error I've made numerous times now is also present
in net/phonet/pn_netlink.c in the route_dumpit() function - it didn't
check for <0 or <=0 and thus broke out of the loop every single time.
I've preserved this since it will (I think) have caused the messages to
userspace to be formatted differently with just a single message for
every SKB returned to userspace. It's possible that this isn't needed
for the tools that actually use this, but I don't even know what they
are so couldn't test that changing this behaviour would be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

can: fix spelling errors

2014-12-07T20:22:05+00:00

Fix various spelling errors in the comments of the CAN modules.

Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler 
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde

net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages

2014-04-24T17:44:54+00:00

It is possible by passing a netlink socket to a more privileged
executable and then to fool that executable into writing to the socket
data that happens to be valid netlink message to do something that
privileged executable did not intend to do.

To keep this from happening replace bare capable and ns_capable calls
with netlink_capable, netlink_net_calls and netlink_ns_capable calls.
Which act the same as the previous calls except they verify that the
opener of the socket had the desired permissions as well.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

can: use __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface

2014-01-15T02:50:47+00:00

As cgw_create_job() is always under rtnl_lock protection,
__dev_get_by_index() instead of dev_get_by_index() should be used to
find interface handler in it having us avoid to change interface
reference counter.

Cc: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

can: gw: remove obsolete checks

2013-12-21T13:56:21+00:00

In commit be286bafe1f4069094865264f29805854c5788bf ("can: gw: add a variable
limit for CAN frame routings") the detection of the frame routing has been
changed. The former solution required dev->header_ops to be unused (== NULL).

I missed to remove the obsolete checks in the original commit - so here it is.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde

can: gw: add a per rule limitation of frame hops

2013-08-29T20:58:24+00:00

Usually the received CAN frames can be processed/routed as much as 'max_hops'
times (which is given at module load time of the can-gw module).
Introduce a new configuration option to reduce the number of possible hops
for a specific gateway rule to a value smaller then max_hops.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde

net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier

2013-05-28T20:11:01+00:00

So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 

v2->v3: fix typo on simeth
	shortened dev_getter
	shortened notifier_info struct name
v1->v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

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

2013-04-23T00:32:51+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
	include/net/scm.h
	net/batman-adv/routing.c
	net/ipv4/tcp_input.c

The e{uid,gid} --> {uid,gid} credentials fix conflicted with the
cleanup in net-next to now pass cred structs around.

The be2net driver had a bug fix in 'net' that overlapped with the VLAN
interface changes by Patrick McHardy in net-next.

An IGB conflict existed because in 'net' the build_skb() support was
reverted, and in 'net-next' there was a comment style fix within that
code.

Several batman-adv conflicts were resolved by making sure that all
calls to batadv_is_my_mac() are changed to have a new bat_priv first
argument.

Eric Dumazet's TS ECR fix in TCP in 'net' conflicted with the F-RTO
rewrite in 'net-next', mostly overlapping changes.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell and Antonio Quartulli for help with several
of these merge resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

can: gw: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()

2013-04-09T07:58:44+00:00

Memory allocated by kmem_cache_alloc() should be freed using
kmem_cache_free(), not kfree().

Cc: linux-stable  # >= v3.2
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Acked-by: Oliver Hartkopp 
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde