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  1. 05 3月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 22 2月, 2012 1 次提交
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      rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation · 115c9b81
      由 Greg Rose 提交于 
      Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK.  The mask
is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that
certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application.
At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to
indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information
about the VFs belonging to the interface.

This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have
large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned
by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions.
Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with
the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will
not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel.

Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net
devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the
info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed
in via the new netlink attribute filter mask.  If no filter
mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE.

With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink
attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible
in the future.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      115c9b81
  5. 27 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  7. 06 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  9. 14 12月, 2011 1 次提交
  11. 17 10月, 2011 1 次提交
    • G
      if_link: Add additional parameter to IFLA_VF_INFO for spoof checking · 5f8444a3
      由 Greg Rose 提交于 
      Add configuration setting for drivers to turn spoof checking on or off
for discrete VFs.

v2 - Fix indentation problem, wrap the ifla_vf_info structure in
     #ifdef __KERNEL__ to prevent user space from accessing and
     change function paramater for the spoof check setting netdev
     op from u8 to bool.
v3 - Preset spoof check setting to -1 so that user space tools such
     as ip can detect that the driver didn't report a spoofcheck
     setting.  Prevents incorrect display of spoof check settings
     for drivers that don't report it.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
      5f8444a3
  13. 11 8月, 2011 1 次提交
  15. 02 7月, 2011 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnl: provide link dump consistency info · 4e985ada
      由 Thomas Graf 提交于 
      This patch adds a change sequence counter to each net namespace
which is bumped whenever a netdevice is added or removed from
the list. If such a change occurred while a link dump took place,
the dump will have the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set in the first
message which has been interrupted and in all subsequent messages
of the same dump.

Note that links may still be modified or renamed while a dump is
taking place but we can guarantee for userspace to receive a
complete list of links and not miss any.

Testing:
I have added 500 VLAN netdevices to make sure the dump is split
over multiple messages. Then while continuously dumping links in
one process I also continuously deleted and re-added a dummy
netdevice in another process. Multiple dumps per seconds have
had the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set.

I guess we can wait for Johannes patch to hit net-next via the
wireless tree.  I just wanted to give this some testing right away.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      4e985ada
  17. 10 6月, 2011 1 次提交
    • G
      rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size · c7ac8679
      由 Greg Rose 提交于 
      The message size allocated for rtnl ifinfo dumps was limited to
a single page.  This is not enough for additional interface info
available with devices that support SR-IOV and caused a bug in
which VF info would not be displayed if more than approximately
40 VFs were created per interface.

Implement a new function pointer for the rtnl_register service that will
calculate the amount of data required for the ifinfo dump and allocate
enough data to satisfy the request.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
      c7ac8679
  19. 26 5月, 2011 1 次提交
    • E
      net: hold rtnl again in dump callbacks · 2907c35f
      由 Eric Dumazet 提交于 
      Commit e67f88dd (dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks)
missed fact that rtnl_fill_ifinfo() must be called with rtnl held.

Because of possible deadlocks between two mutexes (cb_mutex and rtnl),
its not easy to solve this problem, so revert this part of the patch.

It also forgot one rcu_read_unlock() in FIB dump_rules()

Add one ASSERT_RTNL() in rtnl_fill_ifinfo() to remind us the rule.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2907c35f
  21. 23 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  23. 11 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  25. 10 5月, 2011 1 次提交
    • E
      net: use batched device unregister in veth and macvlan · 226bd341
      由 Eric Dumazet 提交于 
      veth devices dont use the batched device unregisters yet.

Since veth are a pair of devices, it makes sense to use a batch of two
unregisters, this roughly divides dismantle time by two.

Fix this by changing dellink() callers to always provide a non NULL
head. (Idea from Michał Mirosław)

This patch also handles macvlan case : We now dismantle all macvlans on
top of a lower dev at once.
Reported-by: NAlex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirqus@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      226bd341
  27. 06 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  29. 03 5月, 2011 1 次提交
    • E
      net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks · e67f88dd
      由 Eric Dumazet 提交于 
      Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink
dump callbacks.

I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making
good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations.

This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow
on a workload adding/removing network devices in background.

All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does
roughly a revert of commits :

1c2d670f : [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
6313c1e0 : [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks

This let writers fight for rtnl mutex and readers going full speed.

It also takes care of phonet : phonet_route_get() is now called from rcu
read section. I renamed it to phonet_route_get_rcu()
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e67f88dd
  31. 31 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  33. 14 2月, 2011 1 次提交
  35. 30 1月, 2011 1 次提交
    • E
      net: Fix ip link add netns oops · 13ad1774
      由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于 
      Ed Swierk <eswierk@bigswitch.com> writes:
> On 2.6.35.7
>  ip link add link eth0 netns 9999 type macvlan
> where 9999 is a nonexistent PID triggers an oops and causes all network functions to hang:
> [10663.821898] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000006d
>  [10663.821917] IP: [<ffffffff8149c2fa>] __dev_alloc_name+0x9a/0x170
>  [10663.821933] PGD 1d3927067 PUD 22f5c5067 PMD 0
>  [10663.821944] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>  [10663.821953] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
>  [10663.821959] CPU 3
>  [10663.821963] Modules linked in: macvlan ip6table_filter ip6_tables rfcomm ipt_MASQUERADE binfmt_misc iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack sco ipt_REJECT bnep l2cap xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge stp vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv kvm_intel kvm parport_pc ppdev snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi snd_hda_codec_conexant arc4 iwlagn iwlcore mac80211 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi i915 snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq thinkpad_acpi drm_kms_helper btusb tpm_tis nvram uvcvideo snd_timer snd_seq_device bluetooth videodev v4l1_compat v4l2_compat_ioctl32 tpm drm tpm_bios snd cfg80211 psmouse serio_raw intel_ips soundcore snd_page_alloc intel_agp i2c_algo_bit video output netconsole configfs lp parport usbhid hid e1000e sdhci_pci ahci libahci sdhci led_class
>  [10663.822155]
>  [10663.822161] Pid: 6000, comm: ip Not tainted 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu 2901CTO/2901CTO
>  [10663.822167] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8149c2fa>] [<ffffffff8149c2fa>] __dev_alloc_name+0x9a/0x170
>  [10663.822177] RSP: 0018:ffff88014aebf7b8 EFLAGS: 00010286
>  [10663.822182] RAX: 00000000fffffff4 RBX: ffff8801ad900800 RCX: 0000000000000000
>  [10663.822187] RDX: ffff880000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88014ad63000
>  [10663.822191] RBP: ffff88014aebf808 R08: 0000000000000041 R09: 0000000000000041
>  [10663.822196] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dead000000200200 R12: ffff88014aebf818
>  [10663.822201] R13: fffffffffffffffd R14: ffff88014aebf918 R15: ffff88014ad62000
>  [10663.822207] FS: 00007f00c487f700(0000) GS:ffff880001f80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>  [10663.822212] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>  [10663.822216] CR2: 000000000000006d CR3: 0000000231f19000 CR4: 00000000000026e0
>  [10663.822221] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>  [10663.822226] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>  [10663.822231] Process ip (pid: 6000, threadinfo ffff88014aebe000, task ffff88014afb16e0)
>  [10663.822236] Stack:
>  [10663.822240] ffff88014aebf808 ffffffff814a2bb5 ffff88014aebf7e8 00000000a00ee8d6
>  [10663.822251] <0> 0000000000000000 ffffffffa00ef940 ffff8801ad900800 ffff88014aebf818
>  [10663.822265] <0> ffff88014aebf918 ffff8801ad900800 ffff88014aebf858 ffffffff8149c413
>  [10663.822281] Call Trace:
>  [10663.822290] [<ffffffff814a2bb5>] ? dev_addr_init+0x75/0xb0
>  [10663.822298] [<ffffffff8149c413>] dev_alloc_name+0x43/0x90
>  [10663.822307] [<ffffffff814a85ee>] rtnl_create_link+0xbe/0x1b0
>  [10663.822314] [<ffffffff814ab2aa>] rtnl_newlink+0x48a/0x570
>  [10663.822321] [<ffffffff814aafcc>] ? rtnl_newlink+0x1ac/0x570
>  [10663.822332] [<ffffffff81030064>] ? native_x2apic_icr_read+0x4/0x20
>  [10663.822339] [<ffffffff814a8c17>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x177/0x290
>  [10663.822346] [<ffffffff814a8aa0>] ? rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x0/0x290
>  [10663.822354] [<ffffffff814c25d9>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xa9/0xd0
>  [10663.822360] [<ffffffff814a8a85>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x25/0x40
>  [10663.822367] [<ffffffff814c223e>] netlink_unicast+0x2de/0x2f0
>  [10663.822374] [<ffffffff814c303e>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1fe/0x2e0
>  [10663.822383] [<ffffffff81488533>] sock_sendmsg+0xf3/0x120
>  [10663.822391] [<ffffffff815899fe>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x20
>  [10663.822400] [<ffffffff81168656>] ? __d_lookup+0x136/0x150
>  [10663.822406] [<ffffffff815899fe>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x20
>  [10663.822414] [<ffffffff812b7a0d>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x4d/0x80
>  [10663.822422] [<ffffffff8116ea90>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x30/0x110
>  [10663.822429] [<ffffffff81486ff5>] ? move_addr_to_kernel+0x65/0x70
>  [10663.822435] [<ffffffff81493308>] ? verify_iovec+0x88/0xe0
>  [10663.822442] [<ffffffff81489020>] sys_sendmsg+0x240/0x3a0
> [10663.822450] [<ffffffff8111e2a9>] ? __do_fault+0x479/0x560
>  [10663.822457] [<ffffffff815899fe>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x20
>  [10663.822465] [<ffffffff8116cf4a>] ? alloc_fd+0x10a/0x150
>  [10663.822473] [<ffffffff8158d76e>] ? do_page_fault+0x15e/0x350
>  [10663.822482] [<ffffffff8100a0f2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>  [10663.822487] Code: 90 48 8d 78 02 be 25 00 00 00 e8 92 1d e2 ff 48 85 c0 75 cf bf 20 00 00 00 e8 c3 b1 c6 ff 49 89 c7 b8 f4 ff ff ff 4d 85 ff 74 bd <4d> 8b 75 70 49 8d 45 70 48 89 45 b8 49 83 ee 58 eb 28 48 8d 55
>  [10663.822618] RIP [<ffffffff8149c2fa>] __dev_alloc_name+0x9a/0x170
>  [10663.822627] RSP <ffff88014aebf7b8>
>  [10663.822631] CR2: 000000000000006d
>  [10663.822636] ---[ end trace 3dfd6c3ad5327ca7 ]---

This bug was introduced in:
commit 81adee47
Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 00:53:51 2009 -0800

    net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.

    There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the
    network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier
    to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace
    with a well known name.

    We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace
    for the new device exists through the life of the call.  To keep
    that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing
    logic into rtnl_link_get_net.

    In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace
    to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base
    device source network namespace.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Where apparently I forgot to add error handling to the path where we create
a new network device in a new network namespace, and pass in an invalid pid.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: NEd Swierk <eswierk@bigswitch.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      13ad1774
  37. 28 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  39. 21 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  41. 20 1月, 2011 3 次提交
  43. 10 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  45. 28 11月, 2010 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnl: make link af-specific updates atomic · cf7afbfe
      由 Thomas Graf 提交于 
      As David pointed out correctly, updates to af-specific attributes
are currently not atomic. If multiple changes are requested and
one of them fails, previous updates may have been applied already
leaving the link behind in a undefined state.

This patch splits the function parse_link_af() into two functions
validate_link_af() and set_link_at(). validate_link_af() is placed
to validate_linkmsg() check for errors as early as possible before
any changes to the link have been made. set_link_af() is called to
commit the changes later.

This method is not fail proof, while it is currently sufficient
to make set_link_af() inerrable and thus 100% atomic, the
validation function method will not be able to detect all error
scenarios in the future, there will likely always be errors
depending on states which are f.e. not protected by rtnl_mutex
and thus may change between validation and setting.

Also, instead of silently ignoring unknown address families and
config blocks for address families which did not register a set
function the errors EAFNOSUPPORT respectively EOPNOSUPPORT are
returned to avoid comitting 4 out of 5 update requests without
notifying the user.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      cf7afbfe
  47. 18 11月, 2010 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnetlink: Link address family API · f8ff182c
      由 Thomas Graf 提交于 
      Each net_device contains address family specific data such as
per device settings and statistics. We already expose this data
via procfs/sysfs and partially netlink.

The netlink method requires the requester to send one RTM_GETLINK
request for each address family it wishes to receive data of
and then merge this data itself.

This patch implements a new API which combines all address family
specific link data in a new netlink attribute IFLA_AF_SPEC.
IFLA_AF_SPEC contains a sequence of nested attributes, one for each
address family which in turn defines the structure of its own
attribute. Example:

   [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = {
       [AF_INET] = {
           [IFLA_INET_CONF] = ...,
       },
       [AF_INET6] = {
           [IFLA_INET6_FLAGS] = ...,
           [IFLA_INET6_CONF] = ...,
       }
   }

The API also allows for address families to implement a function
which parses the IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute sent by userspace to
implement address family specific link options.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f8ff182c
  49. 13 11月, 2010 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnetlink: Fix message size calculation for link messages · 369cf77a
      由 Thomas Graf 提交于 
      nlmsg_total_size() calculates the length of a netlink message
including header and alignment. nla_total_size() calculates the
space an individual attribute consumes which was meant to be used
in this context.

Also, ensure to account for the attribute header for the
IFLA_INFO_XSTATS attribute as implementations of get_xstats_size()
seem to assume that we do so.

The addition of two message headers minus the missing attribute
header resulted in a calculated message size that was larger than
required. Therefore we never risked running out of skb tailroom.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      369cf77a
  51. 21 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  53. 24 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  55. 13 7月, 2010 1 次提交
  57. 08 7月, 2010 1 次提交
    • E
      net: fix 64 bit counters on 32 bit arches · 28172739
      由 Eric Dumazet 提交于 
      There is a small possibility that a reader gets incorrect values on 32
bit arches. SNMP applications could catch incorrect counters when a
32bit high part is changed by another stats consumer/provider.

One way to solve this is to add a rtnl_link_stats64 param to all
ndo_get_stats64() methods, and also add such a parameter to
dev_get_stats().

Rule is that we are not allowed to use dev->stats64 as a temporary
storage for 64bit stats, but a caller provided area (usually on stack)

Old drivers (only providing get_stats() method) need no changes.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      28172739
  59. 13 6月, 2010 1 次提交
    • B
      net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architectures · be1f3c2c
      由 Ben Hutchings 提交于 
      Use struct rtnl_link_stats64 as the statistics structure.

On 32-bit architectures, insert 32 bits of padding after/before each
field of struct net_device_stats to make its layout compatible with
struct rtnl_link_stats64.  Add an anonymous union in net_device; move
stats into the union and add struct rtnl_link_stats64 stats64.

Add net_device_ops::ndo_get_stats64, implementations of which will
return a pointer to struct rtnl_link_stats64.  Drivers that implement
this operation must not update the structure asynchronously.

Change dev_get_stats() to call ndo_get_stats64 if available, and to
return a pointer to struct rtnl_link_stats64.  Change callers of
dev_get_stats() accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      be1f3c2c
  61. 28 5月, 2010 2 次提交
  63. 24 5月, 2010 1 次提交
    • D
      rtnetlink: Fix error handling in do_setlink() · 253683bb
      由 David Howells 提交于 
      Commit c02db8c6:

	Author:  Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
	Date:    Sun May 16 01:05:45 2010 -0700
	Subject: rtnetlink: make SR-IOV VF interface symmetric

adds broken error handling to do_setlink() in net/core/rtnetlink.c.  The
problem is the following chunk of code:

	if (tb[IFLA_VFINFO_LIST]) {
		struct nlattr *attr;
		int rem;
		nla_for_each_nested(attr, tb[IFLA_VFINFO_LIST], rem) {
			if (nla_type(attr) != IFLA_VF_INFO)
  ---->				goto errout;
			err = do_setvfinfo(dev, attr);
			if (err < 0)
				goto errout;
			modified = 1;
		}
	}

which can get to errout without setting err, resulting in the following error:

net/core/rtnetlink.c: In function 'do_setlink':
net/core/rtnetlink.c:904: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function

Change the code to return -EINVAL in this case.  Note that this might not be
the appropriate error though.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      253683bb
  65. 18 5月, 2010 1 次提交
    • S
      net: Add netlink support for virtual port management (was iovnl) · 57b61080
      由 Scott Feldman 提交于 
      Add new netdev ops ndo_{set|get}_vf_port to allow setting of
port-profile on a netdev interface.  Extends netlink socket RTM_SETLINK/
RTM_GETLINK with two new sub msgs called IFLA_VF_PORTS and IFLA_PORT_SELF
(added to end of IFLA_cmd list).  These are both nested atrtibutes
using this layout:

              [IFLA_NUM_VF]
              [IFLA_VF_PORTS]
                      [IFLA_VF_PORT]
                              [IFLA_PORT_*], ...
                      [IFLA_VF_PORT]
                              [IFLA_PORT_*], ...
                      ...
              [IFLA_PORT_SELF]
                      [IFLA_PORT_*], ...

These attributes are design to be set and get symmetrically.  VF_PORTS
is a list of VF_PORTs, one for each VF, when dealing with an SR-IOV
device.  PORT_SELF is for the PF of the SR-IOV device, in case it wants
to also have a port-profile, or for the case where the VF==PF, like in
enic patch 2/2 of this patch set.

A port-profile is used to configure/enable the external switch virtual port
backing the netdev interface, not to configure the host-facing side of the
netdev.  A port-profile is an identifier known to the switch.  How port-
profiles are installed on the switch or how available port-profiles are
made know to the host is outside the scope of this patch.

There are two types of port-profiles specs in the netlink msg.  The first spec
is for 802.1Qbg (pre-)standard, VDP protocol.  The second spec is for devices
that run a similar protocol as VDP but in firmware, thus hiding the protocol
details.  In either case, the specs have much in common and makes sense to
define the netlink msg as the union of the two specs.  For example, both specs
have a notition of associating/deassociating a port-profile.  And both specs
require some information from the hypervisor manager, such as client port
instance ID.

The general flow is the port-profile is applied to a host netdev interface
using RTM_SETLINK, the receiver of the RTM_SETLINK msg communicates with the
switch, and the switch virtual port backing the host netdev interface is
configured/enabled based on the settings defined by the port-profile.  What
those settings comprise, and how those settings are managed is again
outside the scope of this patch, since this patch only deals with the
first step in the flow.
Signed-off-by: NScott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: NRoopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      57b61080
  67. 16 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  69. 26 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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      net: rtnetlink: decouple rtnetlink address families from real address families · 25239cee
      由 Patrick McHardy 提交于 
      Decouple rtnetlink address families from real address families in socket.h to
be able to add rtnetlink interfaces to code that is not a real address family
without increasing AF_MAX/NPROTO.

This will be used to add support for multicast route dumping from all tables
as the proc interface can't be extended to support anything but the main table
without breaking compatibility.

This partialy undoes the patch to introduce independant families for routing
rules and converts ipmr routing rules to a new rtnetlink family. Similar to
that patch, values up to 127 are reserved for real address families, values
above that may be used arbitrarily.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
      25239cee
  71. 23 4月, 2010 1 次提交
  73. 14 4月, 2010 1 次提交