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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/netlabel/netlabel_mgmt.c, branch v4.9.118</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>netlabel: Add support for creating a CALIPSO protocol domain mapping.</title>
<updated>2016-06-27T19:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huw Davies</name>
<email>huw@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-27T19:02:49+00:00</published>
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This extends the NLBL_MGMT_C_ADD and NLBL_MGMT_C_ADDDEF commands
to accept CALIPSO protocol DOIs.

Signed-off-by: Huw Davies &lt;huw@codeweavers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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This extends the NLBL_MGMT_C_ADD and NLBL_MGMT_C_ADDDEF commands
to accept CALIPSO protocol DOIs.

Signed-off-by: Huw Davies &lt;huw@codeweavers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netlabel: Initial support for the CALIPSO netlink protocol.</title>
<updated>2016-06-27T19:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huw Davies</name>
<email>huw@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-27T19:02:46+00:00</published>
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CALIPSO is a packet labelling protocol for IPv6 which is very similar
to CIPSO.  It is specified in RFC 5570.  Much of the code is based on
the current CIPSO code.

This adds support for adding passthrough-type CALIPSO DOIs through the
NLBL_CALIPSO_C_ADD command.  It requires attributes:

 NLBL_CALIPSO_A_TYPE which must be CALIPSO_MAP_PASS.
 NLBL_CALIPSO_A_DOI.

In passthrough mode the CALIPSO engine will map MLS secattr levels
and categories directly to the packet label.

At this stage, the major difference between this and the CIPSO
code is that IPv6 may be compiled as a module.  To allow for
this the CALIPSO functions are registered at module init time.

Signed-off-by: Huw Davies &lt;huw@codeweavers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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CALIPSO is a packet labelling protocol for IPv6 which is very similar
to CIPSO.  It is specified in RFC 5570.  Much of the code is based on
the current CIPSO code.

This adds support for adding passthrough-type CALIPSO DOIs through the
NLBL_CALIPSO_C_ADD command.  It requires attributes:

 NLBL_CALIPSO_A_TYPE which must be CALIPSO_MAP_PASS.
 NLBL_CALIPSO_A_DOI.

In passthrough mode the CALIPSO engine will map MLS secattr levels
and categories directly to the packet label.

At this stage, the major difference between this and the CIPSO
code is that IPv6 may be compiled as a module.  To allow for
this the CALIPSO functions are registered at module init time.

Signed-off-by: Huw Davies &lt;huw@codeweavers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlabel: Add an address family to domain hash entries.</title>
<updated>2016-06-27T19:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huw Davies</name>
<email>huw@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-27T19:02:46+00:00</published>
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The reason is to allow different labelling protocols for
different address families with the same domain.

This requires the addition of an address family attribute
in the netlink communication protocol.  It is used in several
messages:

NLBL_MGMT_C_ADD and NLBL_MGMT_C_ADDDEF take it as an optional
attribute for the unlabelled protocol.  It may be one of AF_INET,
AF_INET6 or AF_UNSPEC (to specify both address families).  If it
is missing, it defaults to AF_UNSPEC.

NLBL_MGMT_C_LISTALL and NLBL_MGMT_C_LISTDEF return it as part of
the enumeration of each item.  Addtionally, it may be sent to
LISTDEF to specify which address family to return.

Signed-off-by: Huw Davies &lt;huw@codeweavers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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The reason is to allow different labelling protocols for
different address families with the same domain.

This requires the addition of an address family attribute
in the netlink communication protocol.  It is used in several
messages:

NLBL_MGMT_C_ADD and NLBL_MGMT_C_ADDDEF take it as an optional
attribute for the unlabelled protocol.  It may be one of AF_INET,
AF_INET6 or AF_UNSPEC (to specify both address families).  If it
is missing, it defaults to AF_UNSPEC.

NLBL_MGMT_C_LISTALL and NLBL_MGMT_C_LISTDEF return it as part of
the enumeration of each item.  Addtionally, it may be sent to
LISTDEF to specify which address family to return.

Signed-off-by: Huw Davies &lt;huw@codeweavers.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: implement nla_put_in_addr and nla_put_in6_addr</title>
<updated>2015-03-31T17:58:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Benc</name>
<email>jbenc@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-29T14:59:25+00:00</published>
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IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions
to do that.

For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is
not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is
used to store IPv4 address.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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IP addresses are often stored in netlink attributes. Add generic functions
to do that.

For nla_put_in_addr, it would be nicer to pass struct in_addr but this is
not used universally throughout the kernel, in way too many places __be32 is
used to store IPv4 address.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc &lt;jbenc@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlabel: Less function calls in netlbl_mgmt_add_common() after error detection</title>
<updated>2015-02-04T00:22:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Elfring</name>
<email>elfring@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-02T10:00:24+00:00</published>
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The functions "cipso_v4_doi_putdef" and "kfree" could be called in some cases
by the netlbl_mgmt_add_common() function during error handling even if the
passed variables contained still a null pointer.

* This implementation detail could be improved by adjustments for jump labels.

* Let us return immediately after the first failed function call according to
  the current Linux coding style convention.

* Let us delete also an unnecessary check for the variable "entry" there.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The functions "cipso_v4_doi_putdef" and "kfree" could be called in some cases
by the netlbl_mgmt_add_common() function during error handling even if the
passed variables contained still a null pointer.

* This implementation detail could be improved by adjustments for jump labels.

* Let us return immediately after the first failed function call according to
  the current Linux coding style convention.

* Let us delete also an unnecessary check for the variable "entry" there.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlabel: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "cipso_v4_doi_putdef"</title>
<updated>2015-02-04T00:22:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Elfring</name>
<email>elfring@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-02T09:01:45+00:00</published>
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The cipso_v4_doi_putdef() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The cipso_v4_doi_putdef() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring &lt;elfring@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void</title>
<updated>2015-01-18T06:03:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T21:09:00+00:00</published>
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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(...) &lt; 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-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 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 &lt;0 or &lt;=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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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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(...) &lt; 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-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;= 0 in dump functionality, but that could just
be changed to &lt; 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 &lt;0 or &lt;=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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netlabel: Fix FSF address in file headers</title>
<updated>2013-12-06T17:37:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Kirsher</name>
<email>jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-06T17:13:41+00:00</published>
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Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment.  Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt; so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment.  Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL &lt;http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt; so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.

CC: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops()</title>
<updated>2013-11-19T21:39:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-19T14:19:31+00:00</published>
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As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops()
a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the
macro, this is a little safer.

The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in
that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the
family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and
code (once mcast groups are handled differently.)

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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As suggested by David Miller, make genl_register_family_with_ops()
a macro and pass only the array, evaluating ARRAY_SIZE() in the
macro, this is a little safer.

The openvswitch has some indirection, assing ops/n_ops directly in
that code. This might ultimately just assign the pointers in the
family initializations, saving the struct genl_family_and_ops and
code (once mcast groups are handled differently.)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genetlink: make all genl_ops users const</title>
<updated>2013-11-14T22:10:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-14T16:14:46+00:00</published>
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Now that genl_ops are no longer modified in place when
registering, they can be made const. This patch was done
mostly with spatch:

@@
identifier ops;
@@
+const
 struct genl_ops ops[] = {
 ...
 };

(except the struct thing in net/openvswitch/datapath.c)

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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Now that genl_ops are no longer modified in place when
registering, they can be made const. This patch was done
mostly with spatch:

@@
identifier ops;
@@
+const
 struct genl_ops ops[] = {
 ...
 };

(except the struct thing in net/openvswitch/datapath.c)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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