linux-toradex.git/net/netlink/genetlink.c, branch v3.4.76

thermal: shorten too long mcast group name

2013-04-05T17:04:38+00:00

[ Upstream commits 73214f5d9f33b79918b1f7babddd5c8af28dd23d
  and f1e79e208076ffe7bad97158275f1c572c04f5c7, the latter
  adds an assertion to genetlink to prevent this from happening
  again in the future. ]

The original name is too long.

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netlink: add netlink_dump_control structure for netlink_dump_start()

2012-02-26T19:10:06+00:00

Davem considers that the argument list of this interface is getting
out of control. This patch tries to address this issue following
his proposal:

struct netlink_dump_control c = { .dump = dump, .done = done, ... };

netlink_dump_start(..., &c);

Suggested by David S. Miller.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Deinline __nlmsg_put and genlmsg_put. -7k code on i386 defconfig.

2012-01-30T20:22:06+00:00

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
8455963	 532732	1810804	10799499 a4c98b	vmlinux.o.before
8448899	 532732	1810804	10792435 a4adf3	vmlinux.o

This change also removes commented-out copy of __nlmsg_put
which was last touched in 2005 with "Enable once all users
have been converted" comment on top.

Changes in v2: rediffed against net-next.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security

2012-01-15T02:36:33+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security:
  capabilities: remove __cap_full_set definition
  security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
  ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat
  capabilities: remove task_ns_* functions
  capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call
  capabilities: style only - move capable below ns_capable
  capabilites: introduce new has_ns_capabilities_noaudit
  capabilities: call has_ns_capability from has_capability
  capabilities: remove all _real_ interfaces
  capabilities: introduce security_capable_noaudit
  capabilities: reverse arguments to security_capable
  capabilities: remove the task from capable LSM hook entirely
  selinux: sparse fix: fix several warnings in the security server cod
  selinux: sparse fix: fix warnings in netlink code
  selinux: sparse fix: eliminate warnings for selinuxfs
  selinux: sparse fix: declare selinux_disable() in security.h
  selinux: sparse fix: move selinux_complete_init
  selinux: sparse fix: make selinux_secmark_refcount static
  SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()

Manually fix up a semantic mis-merge wrt security_netlink_recv():

 - the interface was removed in commit fd7784615248 ("security: remove
   the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()")

 - a new user of it appeared in commit a38f7907b926 ("crypto: Add
   userspace configuration API")

causing no automatic merge conflict, but Eric Paris pointed out the
issue.

security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()

2012-01-05T23:53:01+00:00

Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective
capabilities from the skb that was being received.  Today we instead get
the capabilities from the current task.  This has rendered the entire
purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the
capable() call.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

genetlink: add auto module loading

2011-12-28T18:48:55+00:00

When testing L2TP support, I discovered that the l2tp module is not autoloaded
as are other netlink interfaces. There is because of lack of hook in genetlink to call
request_module and load the module.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netlink: af_netlink cleanup (v2)

2011-12-23T03:37:19+00:00

Don't inline functions that cover several lines, and do inline
the trivial ones. Also make some arguments const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

genetlink: Add lockdep_genl_is_held().

2011-12-03T17:35:07+00:00

Open vSwitch uses genl_mutex locking to protect datapath
data-structures like flow-table, flow-actions. Following patch adds
lockdep_genl_is_held() which is used for rcu annotation to prove
locking.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar 
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross

genetlink: Add genl_notify()

2011-12-03T17:35:05+00:00

Open vSwitch uses Generic Netlink interface for communication
between userspace and kernel module. genl_notify() is used
for sending notification back to userspace.

genl_notify() is analogous to rtnl_notify() but uses genl_sock
instead of rtnl.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar 
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross

rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size

2011-06-10T03:38:07+00:00

The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to
a single page.  This is not enough for additional interface info
available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in
which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately
40 VFs were created per interface.

Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will
calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate
enough data to satisfy the request.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher