1. 22 2月, 2012 1 次提交
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      rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation · 115c9b81
      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
  2. 27 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  3. 06 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 14 12月, 2011 1 次提交
  5. 17 10月, 2011 1 次提交
    • G
      if_link: Add additional parameter to IFLA_VF_INFO for spoof checking · 5f8444a3
      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
  6. 11 8月, 2011 1 次提交
  7. 02 7月, 2011 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnl: provide link dump consistency info · 4e985ada
      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
  8. 10 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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      rtnetlink: Compute and store minimum ifinfo dump size · c7ac8679
      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
  9. 26 5月, 2011 1 次提交
    • E
      net: hold rtnl again in dump callbacks · 2907c35f
      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
  10. 23 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  11. 11 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  12. 10 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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      net: use batched device unregister in veth and macvlan · 226bd341
      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
  13. 06 5月, 2011 1 次提交
  14. 03 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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      net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks · e67f88dd
      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
  15. 31 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  16. 14 2月, 2011 1 次提交
  17. 30 1月, 2011 1 次提交
    • E
      net: Fix ip link add netns oops · 13ad1774
      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
  18. 28 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  19. 21 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  20. 20 1月, 2011 3 次提交
  21. 10 1月, 2011 1 次提交
  22. 28 11月, 2010 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnl: make link af-specific updates atomic · cf7afbfe
      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
  23. 18 11月, 2010 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnetlink: Link address family API · f8ff182c
      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
  24. 13 11月, 2010 1 次提交
    • T
      rtnetlink: Fix message size calculation for link messages · 369cf77a
      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
  25. 21 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  26. 24 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  27. 13 7月, 2010 1 次提交
  28. 08 7月, 2010 1 次提交
    • E
      net: fix 64 bit counters on 32 bit arches · 28172739
      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
  29. 13 6月, 2010 1 次提交
    • B
      net: Enable 64-bit net device statistics on 32-bit architectures · be1f3c2c
      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
  30. 28 5月, 2010 2 次提交
  31. 24 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      rtnetlink: Fix error handling in do_setlink() · 253683bb
      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
  32. 18 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      net: Add netlink support for virtual port management (was iovnl) · 57b61080
      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
  33. 16 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  34. 26 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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      net: rtnetlink: decouple rtnetlink address families from real address families · 25239cee
      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
  35. 23 4月, 2010 1 次提交
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  37. 28 3月, 2010 1 次提交