From a07ea4d9941af5a0c6f0be2a71b51ac9c083c5e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:40:02 +0200 Subject: genetlink: no longer support using static family IDs Static family IDs have never really been used, the only use case was the workaround I introduced for those users that assumed their family ID was also their multicast group ID. Additionally, because static family IDs would never be reserved by the generic netlink code, using a relatively low ID would only work for built-in families that can be registered immediately after generic netlink is started, which is basically only the control family (apart from the workaround code, which I also had to add code for so it would reserve those IDs) Thus, anything other than GENL_ID_GENERATE is flawed and luckily not used except in the cases I mentioned. Move those workarounds into a few lines of code, and then get rid of GENL_ID_GENERATE entirely, making it more robust. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h index 5512c90af7e3..d9b2db4a29c6 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ struct genlmsghdr { /* * List of reserved static generic netlink identifiers: */ -#define GENL_ID_GENERATE 0 #define GENL_ID_CTRL NLMSG_MIN_TYPE #define GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 1) #define GENL_ID_PMCRAID (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 2) -- cgit v1.2.3 From 2ae0f17df1cd52aafd1ab0415ea1f1dd56dc0e2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:40:04 +0200 Subject: genetlink: use idr to track families Since generic netlink family IDs are small integers, allocated densely, IDR is an ideal match for lookups. Replace the existing hand-written hash-table with IDR for allocation and lookup. This lets the families only be written to once, during register, since the list_head can be removed and removal of a family won't cause any writes. It also slightly reduces the code size (by about 1.3k on x86-64). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h index d9b2db4a29c6..adc899381e0d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ struct genlmsghdr { #define GENL_ID_CTRL NLMSG_MIN_TYPE #define GENL_ID_VFS_DQUOT (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 1) #define GENL_ID_PMCRAID (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 2) +/* must be last reserved + 1 */ +#define GENL_START_ALLOC (NLMSG_MIN_TYPE + 3) /************************************************************************** * Controller -- cgit v1.2.3