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Patrick McHardy
3993832464 netfilter: nfnetlink: constify message attributes and headers
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-08-25 16:07:58 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
e34d5c1a4f netfilter: conntrack: replace notify chain by function pointer
This patch removes the notify chain infrastructure and replace it
by a simple function pointer. This issue has been mentioned in the
mailing list several times: the use of the notify chain adds
too much overhead for something that is only used by ctnetlink.

This patch also changes nfnetlink_send(). It seems that gfp_any()
returns GFP_KERNEL for user-context request, like those via
ctnetlink, inside the RCU read-side section which is not valid.
Using GFP_KERNEL is also evil since netlink may schedule(),
this leads to "scheduling while atomic" bug reports.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2009-06-03 10:32:06 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
f49c857ff2 netfilter: nfnetlink: cleanup for nfnetlink_rcv_msg() function
This patch cleans up the message handling path in two aspects:

 * it uses NLMSG_LENGTH() instead of NLMSG_SPACE() like rtnetlink
does in this case to check if there is enough room for the
Netlink/nfnetlink headers. No need to check for the padding room.

 * it removes a redundant header size checking that has been
 already do at the beginning of the function.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2009-06-02 20:03:33 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
a0142733a7 netfilter: nfnetlink: return ENOMEM if we fail to create netlink socket
With this patch, nfnetlink returns -ENOMEM instead of -EPERM if we
fail to create the nfnetlink netlink socket during the module
loading. This is exactly what rtnetlink does in this case.

Ideally, it would be better if we propagate the error that has
happened in netlink_kernel_create(), however, this function still
does not implement this yet.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-04-17 17:48:44 +02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
dd5b6ce6fd nefilter: nfnetlink: add nfnetlink_set_err and use it in ctnetlink
This patch adds nfnetlink_set_err() to propagate the error to netlink
broadcast listener in case of memory allocation errors in the
message building.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-03-23 13:21:06 +01:00
Johannes Berg
95a5afca4a net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely)
Some code here depends on CONFIG_KMOD to not try to load
protocol modules or similar, replace by CONFIG_MODULES
where more than just request_module depends on CONFIG_KMOD
and and also use try_then_request_module in ebtables.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
e6a7d3c04f netfilter: ctnetlink: remove bogus module dependency between ctnetlink and nf_nat
This patch removes the module dependency between ctnetlink and
nf_nat by means of an indirect call that is initialized when
nf_nat is loaded. Now, nf_conntrack_netlink only requires
nf_conntrack and nfnetlink.

This patch puts nfnetlink_parse_nat_setup_hook into the
nf_conntrack_core to avoid dependencies between ctnetlink,
nf_conntrack_ipv4 and nf_conntrack_ipv6.

This patch also introduces the function ctnetlink_change_nat
that is only invoked from the creation path. Actually, the
nat handling cannot be invoked from the update path since
this is not allowed. By introducing this function, we remove
the useless nat handling in the update path and we avoid
deadlock-prone code.

This patch also adds the required EAGAIN logic for nfnetlink.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-14 11:58:31 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
b7c6ba6eb1 [NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.
Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just
let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal
inside a namespace.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:08:07 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev
cd40b7d398 [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious.
This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current
netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced 
asynchronious user -> kernel communication.

The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel
netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the
user.

Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue
and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all
pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing
may occur in the arbitrary process context.

This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet
processing right in the netlink_unicast.

Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched.

EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock
drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully
processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
3b71535f35 [NET]: Make netlink processing routines semi-synchronious (inspired by rtnl) v2
The code in netfilter/nfnetlink.c and in ./net/netlink/genetlink.c looks
like outdated copy/paste from rtnetlink.c. Push them into sync with the
original.

Changes from v1:
- deleted comment in nfnetlink_rcv_msg by request of Patrick McHardy

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 21:13:32 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e373057828 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: support attribute policies
Add support for automatic checking of per-callback attribute policies.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:33 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
dd82185f2c [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use nlmsg_notify()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:32 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
df6fb868d6 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: convert to generic netlink attribute functions
Get rid of the duplicated rtnetlink macros and use the generic netlink
attribute functions. The old duplicated stuff is moved to a new header
file that exists just for userspace.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:31 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
7c8d4cb419 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: make subsystem and callbacks const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:53:30 -07:00
Herbert Xu
0cfad07555 [NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue
I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured
to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values
unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue.  Changing it to return
the value will allow the compiler to generate better code
since the value won't have to be memory-backed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
b4b510290b [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
this includes the controlling kernel sockets.

This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
to only support the initial network namespace.  Request
by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
that netlink protocol compiled in.

As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.

The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -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
Thomas Graf
c7bf5f9dc2 [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: netlink_run_queue() already checks for NLM_F_REQUEST
Patrick has made use of netlink_run_queue() in nfnetlink while my patches
have been waiting for net-2.6.22 to open. So this check for NLM_F_REQUEST
can go as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:46 -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
Pablo Neira Ayuso
ac6d141dc7 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: parse attributes with nfattr_parse in nfnetlink_check_attribute
Use nfattr_parse to parse attributes, this patch also modifies the default
behaviour since unknown attributes will be ignored instead of returning
EINVAL. This ensure backward compatibility: new libraries with new
attributes and old kernels can work.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:58 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
f4bc177f0f [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: move EXPORT_SYMBOL declarations next to the exported symbol
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:51 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
8a2e89533a [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove unused includes in nfnetlink.c
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:50 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
ac0f1d9894 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove unrequired check in nfnetlink_get_subsys
subsys_table is initialized to NULL, therefore just returns NULL in case
that it is not set.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:49 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
d9e6d02949 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove duplicate checks in nfnetlink_check_attributes
Remove nfnetlink_check_attributes duplicates message size and callback
id checks. nfnetlink_find_client and nfnetlink_rcv_msg already do
such checks.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:48 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
67ca396606 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: remove early debugging messages from nfnetlink
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:47 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
73c361862c [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use netlink_run_queue()
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:44 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a3c5029cf7 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: use mutex instead of semaphore
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
4498121ca3 [NET]: Handle disabled preemption in gfp_any()
ctnetlink uses netlink_unicast from an atomic_notifier_chain
(which is called within a RCU read side critical section)
without holding further locks. netlink_unicast calls netlink_trim
with the result of gfp_any() for the gfp flags, which are passed
down to pskb_expand_header. gfp_any() only checks for softirq
context and returns GFP_KERNEL, resulting in this warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3032
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
no locks held by rmmod/7010.

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8109467f>] debug_show_held_locks+0x9/0xb
 [<ffffffff8100b0b4>] __might_sleep+0xd9/0xdb
 [<ffffffff810b5082>] __kmalloc+0x68/0x110
 [<ffffffff811ba8f2>] pskb_expand_head+0x4d/0x13b
 [<ffffffff81053147>] netlink_broadcast+0xa5/0x2e0
 [<ffffffff881cd1d7>] :nfnetlink:nfnetlink_send+0x83/0x8a
 [<ffffffff8834f6a6>] :nf_conntrack_netlink:ctnetlink_conntrack_event+0x94c/0x96a
 [<ffffffff810624d6>] notifier_call_chain+0x29/0x3e
 [<ffffffff8106251d>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x32/0x60
 [<ffffffff881d266d>] :nf_conntrack:destroy_conntrack+0xa5/0x1d3
 [<ffffffff881d194e>] :nf_conntrack:nf_ct_cleanup+0x8c/0x12c
 [<ffffffff881d4614>] :nf_conntrack:kill_l3proto+0x0/0x13
 [<ffffffff881d482a>] :nf_conntrack:nf_conntrack_l3proto_unregister+0x90/0x94
 [<ffffffff883551b3>] :nf_conntrack_ipv4:nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4_fini+0x2b/0x5d
 [<ffffffff8109d44f>] sys_delete_module+0x1b5/0x1e6
 [<ffffffff8105f245>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x37
 [<ffffffff8105911e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83

Since netlink_unicast is supposed to be callable from within RCU
read side critical sections, make gfp_any() check for in_atomic()
instead of in_softirq().

Additionally nfnetlink_send needs to use gfp_any() as well for the
call to netlink_broadcast).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-28 09:42:13 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
601e68e100 [NETFILTER]: Fix whitespace errors
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-12 11:15:49 -08:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Darrel Goeddel
c7bdb545d2 [NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework.
This patch encapsulates the usage of eff_cap (in netlink_skb_params) within
the security framework by extending security_netlink_recv to include a required
capability parameter and converting all direct usage of eff_caps outside
of the lsm modules to use the interface.  It also updates the SELinux
implementation of the security_netlink_send and security_netlink_recv
hooks to take advantage of the sid in the netlink_skb_params struct.
This also enables SELinux to perform auditing of netlink capability checks.
Please apply, for 2.6.18 if possible.

Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by:  James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:57:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a242769248 [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: avoid unneccessary event message generation
Avoid unneccessary event message generation by checking for netlink
listeners before building a message.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 18:03:59 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
3ebbe0cdd4 [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: Fix calculation of minimum message length
At least, valid nfnetlink message should have nlmsghdr and nfgenmsg.

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>
2005-12-05 13:33:26 -08:00
Harald Welte
37d2e7a20d [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: unconditionally require CAP_NET_ADMIN
This patch unconditionally requires CAP_NET_ADMIN for all nfnetlink
messages.  It also removes the per-message cap_required field, since all
existing subsystems use CAP_NET_ADMIN for all their messages anyway.

Patrick McHardy owes me a beer if we ever need to re-introduce this.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:24:59 -08:00
Harald Welte
ed77de9fc6 [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: only load subsystems if CAP_NET_ADMIN is set
Without this patch, any user can cause nfnetlink subsystems to be
autoloaded.  Those subsystems however could add significant processing
overhead to packet processing, and would refuse any configuration messages
from non-CAP_NET_ADMIN processes anyway.

This patch follows a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09 13:02:16 -08:00
Harald Welte
a2506c0432 [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: nfattr_parse() can never fail, make it void
nfattr_parse (and thus nfattr_parse_nested) always returns success. So we
can make them 'void' and remove all the checking at the caller side.

Based on original patch by Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-09 12:59:13 -08:00
Harald Welte
ebe0bbf06c [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: use highest bit of nfa_type to indicate nested TLV
As Henrik Nordstrom pointed out, all our efforts with "split endian" (i.e.
host byte order tags, net byte order values) are useless, unless a parser
can determine whether an attribute is nested or not.

This patch steals the highest bit of nfattr.nfa_type to indicate whether
the data payload contains a nested nfattr (1) or not (0).

This will break userspace compatibility, but luckily no kernel with
nfnetlink was released so far.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-10 20:52:19 -07:00
Al Viro
dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
c6f4fafccf [NETFILTER]: fix sparse gfp nocast warnings
Fix implicit nocast warnings in nfnetlink code:
net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:204:43: warning: implicit cast to nocast type

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-04 22:42:42 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
395dde20fb [NETFILTER]: net/netfilter/nfnetlink*: make functions static
This patch makes needlessly global functions static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-05 18:06:45 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
066286071d [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
ac6d439d20 [NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasks
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:00:54 -07:00
Harald Welte
a42827b71b [NETFILTER]: cleanup nfnetlink_check_attributes()
1) memset return parameter 'cda' (nfattr pointer array) only on success
2) a message without attributes and just a 'struct nfgenmsg' is valid,
   don't return -EINVAL
3) use likely() and unlikely() where apropriate

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:40:06 -07:00
Harald Welte
927ccbcc28 [NETFILTER]: attribute count is an attribute of message type, not subsytem
Prior to this patch, every nfnetlink subsystem had to specify it's
attribute count.  However, in reality the attribute count depends on
the message type within the subsystem, not the subsystem itself.  This
patch moves 'attr_count' from 'struct nfnetlink_subsys' into
nfnl_callback to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:39:14 -07:00
Harald Welte
0ab43f8499 [NETFILTER]: Core changes required by upcoming nfnetlink_queue code
- split netfiler verdict in 16bit verdict and 16bit queue number
- add 'queuenum' argument to nf_queue_outfn_t and its users ip[6]_queue
- move NFNL_SUBSYS_ definitions from enum to #define
- introduce autoloading for nfnetlink subsystem modules
- add MODULE_ALIAS_NFNL_SUBSYS macro
- add nf_unregister_queue_handlers() to register all handlers for a given
  nf_queue_outfn_t
- add more verbose DEBUGP macro definition to nfnetlink.c
- make nfnetlink_subsys_register fail if subsys already exists
- add some more comments and debug statements to nfnetlink.c

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:36:49 -07:00
Harald Welte
4fdb3bb723 [NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module
- Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink
  protocol
- Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol
  as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:35:08 -07:00
Harald Welte
080774a243 [NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink subsystem
Add ctnetlink subsystem for userspace-access to ip_conntrack table.
This allows reading and updating of existing entries, as well as
creating new ones (and new expect's) via nfnetlink.

Please note the 'strange' byte order: nfattr (tag+length) are in host
byte order, while the payload is always guaranteed to be in network
byte order.  This allows a simple userspace process to encapsulate netlink
messages into arch-independent udp packets by just processing/swapping the
headers and not knowing anything about the actual payload.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:49 -07:00
Harald Welte
f9e815b376 [NETFITLER]: Add nfnetlink layer.
Introduce "nfnetlink" (netfilter netlink) layer.  This layer is used as
transport layer for all userspace communication of the new upcoming
netfilter subsystems, such as ctnetlink, nfnetlink_queue and some day even
the mythical pkttables ;)

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:31:29 -07:00