linux-toradex.git/net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c, branch v3.0.79

decnet: Fix disappearing sysctl entries

2013-03-14T18:32:06+00:00

When decnet is built as a module a simple:
echo 0.0 >/proc/sys/net/decnet/node_address

results in most of the sysctl entries under /proc/sys/net/decnet and
/proc/sys/net/decnet/conf disappearing.

For more details see http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg226123.html.

This change applies the same workaround used in
net/core/sysctl_net_core.c and net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c of creating
a skeleton of decnet sysctl entries before doing anything else.

The problem first appeared in kernel 2.6.27.  The later rewrite of
sysctl in kernel 3.4 restored the previous behavior and eliminated the
need for this workaround.

This patch was heavily inspired by a similar but more complex patch by
Larry Baker.

Reported-by: Larry Baker 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: David Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: avoid limits overflow

2010-11-10T20:12:00+00:00

Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB machine and found some limits were
reached : sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2]

We can switch infrastructure to use long "instead" of "int", now
atomic_long_t primitives are available for free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Robin Holt 
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code

2009-11-12T10:05:06+00:00

Now that sys_sysctl is a compatiblity wrapper around /proc/sys
all sysctl strategy routines, and all ctl_name and strategy
entries in the sysctl tables are unused, and can be
revmoed.

In addition neigh_sysctl_register has been modified to no longer
take a strategy argument and it's callers have been modified not
to pass one.

Cc: "David Miller" 
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI 
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler

2009-09-24T14:21:04+00:00

It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

decnet: fix sparse warnings: symbol shadows an earlier one

2009-02-27T07:13:35+00:00

Impact: Remove redundant variable declarations, resp. rename
inner scope variable.

Fix this sparse warnings:
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1252:40: warning: symbol 'skb' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1223:24: originally declared here
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1582:29: warning: symbol 'val' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/af_decnet.c:1527:22: originally declared here
  net/decnet/dn_dev.c:687:21: warning: symbol 'err' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/dn_dev.c:670:13: originally declared here
  net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:182:21: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one
  net/decnet/sysctl_net_decnet.c:173:16: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

decnet: remove private wrappers of endian helpers

2008-11-27T08:12:47+00:00

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison 
Reviewed-by: Steven Whitehouse 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: '&' redux

2008-11-04T02:21:05+00:00

I want to compile out proc_* and sysctl_* handlers totally and
stub them to NULL depending on config options, however usage of &
will prevent this, since taking adress of NULL pointer will break
compilation.

So, drop & in front of every ->proc_handler and every ->strategy
handler, it was never needed in fact.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sysctl: simplify ->strategy

2008-10-16T18:21:47+00:00

name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: David S. Miller  [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[DECNET]: Switch to using ctl_paths.

2008-01-28T23:01:09+00:00

The decnet includes two places to patch. The first one is
the net/decnet table itself, and it is patched just like
other subsystems in the first patch in this series.

The second place is a bit more complex - it is the
net/decnet/conf/xxx entries,. similar to those in
ipv4/devinet.c and ipv6/addrconf.c. This code is made similar
to those in ipv[46].

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.

2007-10-10T23:49:10+00:00

This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller