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[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> mm.h Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-03 23:15:30 -05:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interface Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the multicast to avoid duplicated notifications. nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to allow notification in atomic contexts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-15 00:31:06 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[RTNETLINK]: Add rtnetlink notification interface Adds rtnl_notify() to send rtnetlink notification messages and rtnl_set_sk_err() to report notification errors as socket errors in order to indicate the need of a resync due to loss of events. nlmsg_report() is added to properly document the meaning of NLM_F_ECHO. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-15 00:31:41 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[Netlink]: add nla_validate_nested() Add a new function, nla_validate_nested(), to validate nested Netlink attributes. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-25 15:54:03 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: add nla_for_each_nested() to the interface list At the top of include/net/netlink.h is a list of Netlink interfaces, however, the nla_for_each_nested() macro was not listed. This patch adds this interface to the list at the top of the header file. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-25 15:53:37 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validation Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy. The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the string. Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 20:11:47 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validation Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy. The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the string. Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 20:11:47 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validation Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy. The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the string. Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 20:11:47 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validation Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy. The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the string. Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 20:11:47 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Improve string attribute validation Introduces a new attribute type NLA_NUL_STRING to support NUL terminated strings. Attributes of this kind require to carry a terminating NUL within the maximum specified in the policy. The `old' NLA_STRING which is not required to be NUL terminated is extended to provide means to specify a maximum length of the string. Aims at easing the pain with using nla_strlcpy() on temporary buffers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 20:11:47 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[IPv4]: FIB configuration using struct fib_config Introduces struct fib_config replacing the ugly struct kern_rta prone to ordering issues. Avoids creating faked netlink messages for auto generated routes or requests via ioctl. A new interface net/nexthop.h is added to help navigate through nexthop configuration arrays. A new struct nl_info will be used to carry the necessary netlink information to be used for notifications later on. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-17 18:14:52 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Generic netlink receive queue processor Introduces netlink_run_queue() to handle the receive queue of a netlink socket in a generic way. Processes as much as there was in the queue upon entry and invokes a callback function for each netlink message found. The callback function may refuse a message by returning a negative error code but setting the error pointer to 0 in which case netlink_run_queue() will return with a qlen != 0. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:53 +01:00
[RTNETLINK]: Add rtnetlink notification interface Adds rtnl_notify() to send rtnetlink notification messages and rtnl_set_sk_err() to report notification errors as socket errors in order to indicate the need of a resync due to loss of events. nlmsg_report() is added to properly document the meaning of NLM_F_ECHO. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-15 00:31:41 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Generic netlink receive queue processor Introduces netlink_run_queue() to handle the receive queue of a netlink socket in a generic way. Processes as much as there was in the queue upon entry and invokes a callback function for each netlink message found. The callback function may refuse a message by returning a negative error code but setting the error pointer to 0 in which case netlink_run_queue() will return with a qlen != 0. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:53 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[RTNETLINK]: Add rtnetlink notification interface Adds rtnl_notify() to send rtnetlink notification messages and rtnl_set_sk_err() to report notification errors as socket errors in order to indicate the need of a resync due to loss of events. nlmsg_report() is added to properly document the meaning of NLM_F_ECHO. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-15 00:31:41 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new() instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly. Replaces error handling of message construction functions when constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies a bug in calculating the size of the skb. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-10 14:10:15 -08:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new() instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly. Replaces error handling of message construction functions when constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies a bug in calculating the size of the skb. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-10 14:10:15 -08:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new() instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly. Replaces error handling of message construction functions when constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies a bug in calculating the size of the skb. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-10 14:10:15 -08:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new() instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly. Replaces error handling of message construction functions when constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies a bug in calculating the size of the skb. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-10 14:10:15 -08:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interface Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the multicast to avoid duplicated notifications. nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to allow notification in atomic contexts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-15 00:31:06 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interface Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the multicast to avoid duplicated notifications. nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to allow notification in atomic contexts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-15 00:31:06 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Add notification message sending interface Adds nlmsg_notify() implementing proper notification logic. The message is multicasted to all listeners in the group. The applications the requests orignates from can request a unicast back report in which case said socket will be excluded from the multicast to avoid duplicated notifications. nlmsg_multicast() is extended to take allocation flags to allow notification in atomic contexts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-15 00:31:06 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[DECNET] address: Convert to new netlink interface Extends the netlink interface to support the __le16 type and converts address addition, deletion and, dumping to use the new netlink interface. Fixes multiple occasions of possible illegal memory references due to not validated netlink attributes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-24 17:14:51 -08:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[IPV4]: introduce nla_get_be32()/NLA_PUT_BE32() net-endian counterparts of nla_get_u32()/NLA_PUT_U32() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-26 22:14:41 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: remove third bogus argument from NLA_PUT_FLAG This patch removes the 'value' argument from NLA_PUT_FLAG which is unused anyway. The documentation comment was already correct so it doesn't need an update :) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-26 19:17:53 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[IPV4]: introduce nla_get_be32()/NLA_PUT_BE32() net-endian counterparts of nla_get_u32()/NLA_PUT_U32() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-26 22:14:41 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[DECNET] address: Convert to new netlink interface Extends the netlink interface to support the __le16 type and converts address addition, deletion and, dumping to use the new netlink interface. Fixes multiple occasions of possible illegal memory references due to not validated netlink attributes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-24 17:14:51 -08:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[Netlink]: add nla_validate_nested() Add a new function, nla_validate_nested(), to validate nested Netlink attributes. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-25 15:54:03 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00
[NETLINK]: Extend netlink messaging interface Adds: nlmsg_get_pos() return current position in message nlmsg_trim() trim part of message nla_reserve_nohdr(skb, len) reserve room for an attribute w/o hdr nla_put_nohdr(skb, len, data) add attribute w/o hdr nla_find_nested() find attribute in nested attributes Fixes nlmsg_new() to take allocation flags and consider size. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-04 23:03:05 -07:00
[NETLINK]: Type-safe netlink messages/attributes interface Introduces a new type-safe interface for netlink message and attributes handling. The interface is fully binary compatible with the old interface towards userspace. Besides type safety, this interface features attribute validation capabilities, simplified message contstruction, and documentation. The resulting netlink code should be smaller, less error prone and easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-10 02:25:51 +01:00