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Jarek Poplawski
723e98b79c [NET]: lockdep classes in register_netdevice
After initializing dev->_xmit_lock register_netdevice()
sets lockdep class according to dev->type.

Idea of this patch - by David Miller.

Reported & tested by: "Yuriy N. Shkandybin" <jura@netams.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-17 14:20:28 -07:00
Herbert Xu
d9568ba91b [NET] link_watch: Always schedule urgent events
Urgent events may be delayed if we already have a non-urgent event
queued for that device.  This patch changes this by making sure that
an urgent event is always looked at immediately.

I've replaced the LW_RUNNING flag by LW_URGENT since whether work
is scheduled is already kept track by the work queue system.

The only complication is that we have to provide some exclusion for
the setting linkwatch_nextevent which is available in the actual
work function.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-10 23:45:28 -07:00
Herbert Xu
db0ccffed9 [NET] link_watch: Eliminate potential delay on wrap-around
When the jiffies wrap around or when the system boots up for the first
time, down events can be delayed indefinitely since we no longer
update linkwatch_nextevent when only urgent events are processed.

This patch fixes this by setting linkwatch_nextevent when a
wrap-around occurs.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-10 23:45:11 -07:00
Herbert Xu
294cc44b7e [NET]: Remove link_watch delay for up even when we're down
Currently all link carrier events are delayed by up to a second
before they're processed to prevent link storms.  This causes
unnecessary packet loss during that interval.

In fact, we can achieve the same effect in preventing storms by
only delaying down events and unnecssary up events.  The latter
is defined as up events when we're already up.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-10 23:45:08 -07:00
Herbert Xu
572a103ded [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device
These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the
network subsystem as it manages the carrier status.  So it now
makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather
than allocating it on demand.

In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory
allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially
throw a link up event away.

It also simplifies the code greatly.

In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use
of singleevent.  This race condition still exists (and is
somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged
thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-10 23:45:07 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8bb7844286 Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2396a22e09 [NET] net/core: Fix error handling
Upon failure to register "ptype" procfs entry, "softnet_stat" was not
removed, and an incorrect attempt was made to remove the "ptype" entry.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-07 00:33:18 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
7562f876cd [NET]: Rework dev_base via list_head (v3)
Cleanup of dev_base list use, with the aim to simplify making device
list per-namespace. In almost every occasion, use of dev_base variable
and dev->next pointer could be easily replaced by for_each_netdev
loop. A few most complicated places were converted to using
first_netdev()/next_netdev().

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 15:13:45 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
4e9cac2ba4 [NET]: Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype
Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype for callers that don't want a reference but
some data from the device and thus need to take the rtnl anyway.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-03 03:28:13 -07:00
Rusty Russell
5a1b5898ee [NET]: Remove NETIF_F_INTERNAL_STATS, default to internal stats.
Herbert Xu conviced me that a new flag was overkill; every driver
currently overrides get_stats, so we might as well make the internal
one the default.  If someone did fail to set get_stats, they would now
get all 0 stats instead of "No statistics available".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-28 21:04:03 -07:00
David S. Miller
1a028e5072 [NET]: Revert sk_buff walker cleanups.
This reverts eefa390628

The simplification made in that change works with the assumption that
the 'offset' parameter to these functions is always positive or zero,
which is not true.  It can be and often is negative in order to access
SKB header values in front of skb->data.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-27 15:21:23 -07:00
Eric Rannaud
bf62456eb9 uevent: use add_uevent_var() instead of open coding it
Make use of add_uevent_var() instead of (often incorrectly) open coding it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Jean Tourrilhes
ca2f37dbc5 Driver core: notify userspace of network device renames
Provide rename event for when we rename network devices.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Johannes Berg
295f4a1fa3 [WEXT]: Clean up how wext is called.
This patch cleans up the call paths from the core code into wext.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 20:43:56 -07:00
Johannes Berg
11433ee450 [WEXT]: Move to net/wireless
This patch moves dev/core/wireless.c to net/wireless/wext.c.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 20:42:51 -07:00
David Howells
17926a7932 [AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both
Provide AF_RXRPC sockets that can be used to talk to AFS servers, or serve
answers to AFS clients.  KerberosIV security is fully supported.  The patches
and some example test programs can be found in:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/

This will eventually replace the old implementation of kernel-only RxRPC
currently resident in net/rxrpc/.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 15:48:28 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
42bad1da50 [NETLINK]: Possible cleanups.
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
  - core/rtnetlink.c: struct rtnl_msg_handlers[]
  - netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c: struct nf_ct_protos[]
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
  - core/rtnetlink.c: rtnl_dump_all()
  - netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_queue_skip()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 00:57:41 -07:00
Jean Delvare
eefa390628 [NET]: Clean up sk_buff walkers.
I noticed recently that, in skb_checksum(), "offset" and "start" are
essentially the same thing and have the same value throughout the
function, despite being computed differently. Using a single variable
allows some cleanups and makes the skb_checksum() function smaller,
more readable, and presumably marginally faster.

We appear to have many other "sk_buff walker" functions built on the
exact same model, so the cleanup applies to them, too. Here is a list
of the functions I found to be affected:

net/appletalk/ddp.c:atalk_sum_skb()
net/core/datagram.c:skb_copy_datagram_iovec()
net/core/datagram.c:skb_copy_and_csum_datagram()
net/core/skbuff.c:skb_copy_bits()
net/core/skbuff.c:skb_store_bits()
net/core/skbuff.c:skb_checksum()
net/core/skbuff.c:skb_copy_and_csum_bit()
net/core/user_dma.c:dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec()
net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c:skb_icv_walk()
net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c:skb_to_sgvec()

OTOH, I admit I'm a bit surprised, the cleanup is rather obvious so I'm
really wondering if I am missing something. Can anyone please comment
on this?

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 00:44:22 -07:00
Herbert Xu
f9d106a6d5 [NET]: Warn about GSO/checksum abuse
Now that Patrick has added the code to deal with GSO in netfilter,
we no longer need the crutch that computes partial checksums just
before transmission.

This patch turns this into a warning again.  If this goes OK, we
can then turn it into a BUG_ON and remove the gso_send_check cruft.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:47 -07:00
Johannes Berg
9e101eab15 [WIRELESS]: Remove wext over netlink.
As scheduled, this patch removes the pointless wext over netlink code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:42 -07:00
Andrew Morton
372cc74c8b [NET]: Prevent much sadness in qdisc_lock_tree().
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:38 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
38b4da3837 [NET]: Fix comments for register_netdev().
Correct the function name in the comments supplied with
register_netdev()

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:33 -07:00
Andi Kleen
9958089a43 [NET]: Move sk_setup_caps() out of line.
It is far too large to be an inline and not in any hot paths.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:26 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3ff50b7997 [NET]: cleanup extra semicolons
Spring cleaning time...

There seems to be a lot of places in the network code that have
extra bogus semicolons after conditionals.  Most commonly is a
bogus semicolon after: switch() { }

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:24 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
9be9a6b983 [NET]: Get rid of netdev_nit
It isn't any faster to test a boolean global variable than do a simple
check for empty list.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:22 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
0c6fcc8a8c [NET] skbuff: skb_store_bits const is backwards
Getting warnings becuase skb_store_bits has skb as constant,
but the function overwrites it. Looks like const was on the
wrong side.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:17 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
fd44de7cc1 [NET_SCHED]: ingress: switch back to using ingress_lock
Switch ingress queueing back to use ingress_lock. qdisc_lock_tree now locks
both the ingress and egress qdiscs on the device. All changes to data that
might be used on both ingress and egress needs to be protected by using
qdisc_lock_tree instead of manually taking dev->queue_lock. Additionally
the qdisc stats_lock needs to be initialized to ingress_lock for ingress
qdiscs.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:08 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6313c1e099 [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks
Since we're now holding the rtnl during the entire dump operation, we can
remove additional locking for rtnl protected data. This patch does that
for all simple cases (dev_base_lock for dev_base walking, RCU protection
for FIB rule dumping).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:05 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
1c2d670f36 [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
Hold rtnl_mutex during the entire netlink dump operation. This allows
to simplify locking in the dump callbacks, since they can now rely on
that no concurrent changes happen.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:04 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
af65bdfce9 [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:03 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
efd1e8d569 [SK_BUFF]: Fix missing offset adjustment in skb_copy_expand
skb_copy_expand changes the headroom, so it needs to adjust the header
offsets by the difference between the old and the new value.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:53 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
6229e362dd bridge: eliminate call by reference
Change the bridging hook to be simple function with return value
rather than modifying the skb argument. This could generate better
code and is cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25 22:28:44 -07:00
Herbert Xu
604763722c [NET]: Treat CHECKSUM_PARTIAL as CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
When a transmitted packet is looped back directly, CHECKSUM_PARTIAL
maps to the semantics of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.  Therefore we should
treat it as such in the stack.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:43 -07:00
Herbert Xu
663ead3bb8 [NET]: Use csum_start offset instead of skb_transport_header
The skb transport pointer is currently used to specify the start
of the checksum region for transmit checksum offload.  Unfortunately,
the same pointer is also used during receive side processing.

This creates a problem when we want to retransmit a received
packet with partial checksums since the skb transport pointer
would be overwritten.

This patch solves this problem by creating a new 16-bit csum_start
offset value to replace the skb transport header for the purpose
of checksums.  This offset is calculated from skb->head so that
it does not have to change when skb->data changes.

No extra space is required since csum_offset itself fits within
a 16-bit word so we can use the other 16 bits for csum_start.

For backwards compatibility, just before we push a packet with
partial checksums off into the device driver, we set the skb
transport header to what it would have been under the old scheme.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
56eb88828b [SK_BUFF]: Fix missing offset adjustment in pskb_expand_head
Since we're increasing the headroom, the header offsets need to be
increased by the same amount as well.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:36 -07:00
Thomas Graf
038890fed8 [RTNL]: Improve error codes for unsupported operations
The most common trigger of these errors is that the
config option hasn't been enable wich would make the
functionality available. Therefore returning EOPNOTSUPP
gives a better idea on what is going wrong.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:34 -07:00
David Howells
716ea3a7aa [NET]: Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic code
Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic code so that
AF_RXRPC can use it too.

The kdoc comments I've attached to the functions needs to be checked
by whoever wrote them as I had to make some guesses about the workings
of these functions.

Signed-off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:33 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
27d7ff46a3 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_to_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying to linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:29 -07:00
Rusty Russell
c45d286e72 [NET]: Inline net_device_stats
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure
then write a get_stats() function to return them.  It would be nice if
this were done by default.

1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device".
2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one"
3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set.
4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if
   ->get_stats is set.

This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet
allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code.

Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:26 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d626f62b11 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25 22:28:23 -07:00
Thomas Graf
73417f617a [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications
The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
of this concept.

This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
or deleting a rule.

Thanks to Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> for catching a bug
in the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:18 -07:00
Thomas Graf
fa0b2d1d21 [NET] fib_rules: Add no-operation action
The use of nop rules simplifies the usage of goto rules
and adds more flexibility as they allow targets to remain
while the actual content of the branches can change easly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:14 -07:00
Thomas Graf
2b44368307 [NET] fib_rules: Mark rules detached from the device
Rules which match against device names in their selector can
remain while the device itself disappears, in fact the device
doesn't have to present when the rule is added in the first
place. The device name is resolved by trying when the rule is
added and later by listening to NETDEV_REGISTER/UNREGISTER
notifications.

This patch adds the flag FIB_RULE_DEV_DETACHED which is set
towards userspace when a rule contains a device match which
is unresolved at the moment. This eases spotting the reason
why certain rules seem not to function properly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:13 -07:00
Thomas Graf
0947c9fe56 [NET] fib_rules: goto rule action
This patch adds a new rule action FR_ACT_GOTO which allows
to skip a set of rules by jumping to another rule. The rule
to jump to is specified via the FRA_GOTO attribute which
carries a rule preference.

Referring to a rule which doesn't exists is explicitely allowed.
Such goto rules are marked with the flag FIB_RULE_UNRESOLVED
and will act like a rule with a non-matching selector. The rule
will become functional as soon as its target is present.

The goto action enables performance optimizations by reducing
the average number of rules that have to be passed per lookup.

Example:
0:      from all lookup local
40:     not from all to 192.168.23.128 goto 32766
41:     from all fwmark 0xa blackhole
42:     from all fwmark 0xff blackhole
32766:  from all lookup main

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:28:12 -07:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
5f79e0f916 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: don't use nfct in skb if conntrack is disabled
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:44 -07:00
Thomas Graf
c702e8047f [NETLINK]: Directly return -EINTR from netlink_dump_start()
Now that all users of netlink_dump_start() use netlink_run_queue()
to process the receive queue, it is possible to return -EINTR from
netlink_dump_start() directly, therefore simplying the callers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:33 -07:00
Thomas Graf
1d00a4eb42 [NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handler
The error pointer argument in netlink message handlers is used
to signal the special case where processing has to be interrupted
because a dump was started but no error happened. Instead it is
simpler and more clear to return -EINTR and have netlink_run_queue()
deal with getting the queue right.

nfnetlink passed on this error pointer to its subsystem handlers
but only uses it to signal the start of a netlink dump. Therefore
it can be removed there as well.

This patch also cleans up the error handling in the affected
message handlers to be consistent since it had to be touched anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:30 -07:00
Thomas Graf
45e7ae7f71 [NETLINK]: Ignore control messages directly in netlink_run_queue()
Changes netlink_rcv_skb() to skip netlink controll messages and don't
pass them on to the message handler.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:29 -07:00
Thomas Graf
d35b685640 [NETLINK]: Ignore !NLM_F_REQUEST messages directly in netlink_run_queue()
netlink_rcv_skb() is changed to skip messages which don't have the
NLM_F_REQUEST bit to avoid every netlink family having to perform this
check on their own.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:29 -07:00