kernel/git/stable/linux.git/include/net/netlink.h, branch linux-2.6.23.y

[NETLINK]: attr: add nested compat attribute type

2007-07-11T05:15:38+00:00

Add a nested compat attribute type that can be used to convert attributes that contain a structure to nested attributes in a backwards compatible way. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies const

2007-06-07T20:40:10+00:00

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Possible cleanups.

2007-04-26T07:57:41+00:00

- 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: introduce NLA_BINARY type

2007-04-26T05:28:05+00:00

This patch introduces a new NLA_BINARY attribute policy type with the verification of simply checking the maximum length of the payload. It also fixes a small typo in the example. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handler

2007-04-26T05:27:30+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Use nlmsg_trim() where appropriate

2007-04-26T05:26:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t

2007-04-26T05:26:28+00:00

So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> mm.h

2006-12-04T07:00:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[DECNET] address: Convert to new netlink interface

2006-12-03T05:30:30+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possible

2006-12-03T05:22:11+00:00

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 Acked-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: David S. Miller