Using an ascii path to register_net_sysctl as opposed to the slightly
awkward ctl_path allows for much simpler code.

We no longer need to malloc dev_name to keep it alive the length of our
sysctl register instead we can use a small temporary buffer on the
stack.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use of "unsigned int" is preferred to bare "unsigned" in net tree.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

These macros contain a hidden goto, and are thus extremely error
prone and make code hard to audit.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

The following patch aimed to resolve an issue where secondary, tertiary,
etc. addresses added to bond interfaces could overwrite the
bond->master_ip and vlan_ip values.

        commit 917fbdb3
        Author: Henrik Saavedra Persson <henrik.e.persson@ericsson.com>
        Date:   Wed Nov 23 23:37:15 2011 +0000

            bonding: only use primary address for ARP

That patch was good because it prevented bonds using ARP monitoring from
sending frames with an invalid source IP address.  Unfortunately, it
didn't always work as expected.

When using an ioctl (like ifconfig does) to set the IP address and
netmask, 2 separate ioctls are actually called to set the IP and netmask
if the mask chosen doesn't match the standard mask for that class of
address.  The first ioctl did not have a mask that matched the one in
the primary address and would still cause the device address to be
overwritten.  The second ioctl that was called to set the mask would
then detect as secondary and ignored, but the damage was already done.

This was not an issue when using an application that used netlink
sockets as the setting of IP and netmask came down at once.  The
inconsistent behavior between those two interfaces was something that
needed to be resolved.

While I was thinking about how I wanted to resolve this, Ralf Zeidler
came with a patch that resolved this on a RHEL kernel by keeping a full
shadow of the entries in dev->ifa_list for the bonding device and vlan
devices in the bonding driver.  I didn't like the duplication of the
list as I want to see the 'bonding' struct and code shrink rather than
grow, but liked the general idea.

As the Subject indicates this patch drops the master_ip and vlan_ip
elements from the 'bonding' and 'vlan_entry' structs, respectively.
This can be done because a device's address-list is now traversed to
determine the optimal source IP address for ARP requests and for checks
to see if the bonding device has a particular IP address.  This code
could have all be contained inside the bonding driver, but it made more
sense to me to EXPORT and call inet_confirm_addr since it did exactly
what was needed.

I tested this and a backported patch and everything works as expected.
Ralf also helped with verification of the backported patch.

Thanks to Ralf for all his help on this.

v2: Whitespace and organizational changes based on suggestions from Jay
Vosburgh and Dave Miller.

v3: Fixup incorrect usage of rcu_read_unlock based on Dave Miller's
suggestion.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: Ralf Zeidler <ralf.zeidler@nsn.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commit a9b3cd7f (rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to
RCU_INIT_POINTER) did a lot of incorrect changes, since it did a
complete conversion of rcu_assign_pointer(x, y) to RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,
y).

We miss needed barriers, even on x86, when y is not NULL.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

After reset ipv4_devconf->data[IPV4_DEVCONF_ACCEPT_LOCAL] to 0,
we should flush route cache, or it will continue receive packets with local
source address, which should be dropped.
Signed-off-by: NWeiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier
is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon
change to not handle the special case.

Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value.

//smpl
@@ expression P; @@

- rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL)
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL)

// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

If a device event generates gratuitous ARP messages, only primary
address is used for sending. This patch iterates through the whole
list. Tested with 2 IP addresses configuration on bonding interface.
Signed-off-by: NZoltan Kiss <schaman@sch.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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>

Commit e67f88dd (net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump
callbacks) switched rtnl protection to RCU, but we forgot to adjust two
rcu_dereference() lockdep annotations :

inet_get_link_af_size() or inet_fill_link_af() might be called with
rcu_read_lock or rtnl held, so use rcu_dereference_rtnl()
instead of rtnl_dereference()
Reported-by: NValdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

ctl_table_headers registered with register_net_sysctl_table should
have been unregistered with the equivalent unregister_net_sysctl_table
Signed-off-by: NLucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For backward compatibility, we should retain the module parameters and
sysfs attributes to control the number of peer notifications
(gratuitous ARPs and unsolicited NAs) sent after bonding failover.
Also, it is possible for failover to take place even though the new
active slave does not have link up, and in that case the peer
notification should be deferred until it does.

Change ipv4 and ipv6 so they do not automatically send peer
notifications on bonding failover.

Change the bonding driver to send separate NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS
notifications when the link is up, as many times as requested.  Since
it does not directly control which protocols send notifications, make
num_grat_arp and num_unsol_na aliases for a single parameter.  Bump
the bonding version number and update its documentation.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NBrian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It is undesirable for the bonding driver to be poking into higher
level protocols, and notifiers provide a way to avoid that.  This does
mean removing the ability to configure reptitition of gratuitous ARPs
and unsolicited NAs.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In commit 9435eb1c
("ipv4: Implement __ip_dev_find using new interface address hash.")
we reimplemented __ip_dev_find() so that it doesn't have to
do a full FIB table lookup.

Instead, it consults a hash table of addresses configured to
interfaces.

This works identically to the old code in all except one case,
and that is for loopback subnets.

The old code would match the loopback device for any IP address
that falls within a subnet configured to the loopback device.

Handle this corner case by doing the FIB lookup.

We could implement this via inet_addr_onlink() but:

1) Someone could configure many addresses to loopback and
   inet_addr_onlink() is a simple list traversal.

2) We know the old code works.
Reported-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Optimize the calling of fib_add_ifaddr for all
secondary addresses after the promoted one to start from
their place, not from the new place of the promoted
secondary. It will save some CPU cycles because we
are sure the promoted secondary was first for the subnet
and all next secondaries do not change their place.
Signed-off-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The secondary address promotion relies on fib_sync_down_addr
to remove all routes created for the secondary addresses when
the old primary address is deleted. It does not happen for cases
when the primary address is also in another subnet. Fix that
by deleting local and broadcast routes for all secondaries while
they are on device list and by faking that all addresses from
this subnet are to be deleted. It relies on fib_del_ifaddr being
able to ignore the IPs from the concerned subnet while checking
for duplication.
Signed-off-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In usual cases ifa_address == ifa_local, but in the case where
SIOCSIFDSTADDR sets the destination address on a point-to-point
link, ifa_address gets set to that destination address.

Therefore we should use ifa_local when we want the local interface
address.

There were two cases where the selection was done incorrectly:

1) When devinet_ioctl() does matching, it checks ifa_address even
   though gifconf correct reported ifa_local to the user

2) IN_DEV_ARP_NOTIFY handling sends a gratuitous ARP using
   ifa_address instead of ifa_local.
Reported-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Reported-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Reported-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Much quicker than going through the FIB tables.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This will be used to optimize __ip_dev_find() and friends.

With help from Eric Dumazet.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER is an explicit request by the driver to send a link
notification while NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_CHANGEADDR generate link
notifications as a sort of side effect.

In the later cases the sysctl option is present because link
notification events can have undesired effects e.g. if the link is
flapping. I don't think this applies in the case of an explicit
request from a driver.

This patch makes NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER unconditional, if preferred we
could add a new sysctl for this case which defaults to on.

This change causes Xen post-migration ARP notifications (which cause
switches to relearn their MAC tables etc) to be sent by default.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Always go through a new ip4_dst_hoplimit() helper, just like ipv6.

This allowed several simplifications:

1) The interim dst_metric_hoplimit() can go as it's no longer
   userd.

2) The sysctl_ip_default_ttl entry no longer needs to use
   ipv4_doint_and_flush, since the sysctl is not cached in
   routing cache metrics any longer.

3) ipv4_doint_and_flush no longer needs to be exported and
   therefore can be marked static.

When ipv4_doint_and_flush_strategy was removed some time ago,
the external declaration in ip.h was mistakenly left around
so kill that off too.

We have to move the sysctl_ip_default_ttl declaration into
ipv4's route cache definition header net/route.h, because
currently net/ip.h (where the declaration lives now) has
a back dependency on net/route.h
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commits 9f0f7272 (ipv4: AF_INET link address family) and cf7afbfe
(rtnl: make link af-specific updates atomic) used incorrect
__in_dev_get_rcu() in RTNL protected contexts, triggering PROVE_RCU
warnings.

Switch to __in_dev_get_rtnl(), wich is more appropriate, since we hold
RTNL.

Based on a report and initial patch from Amerigo Wang.
Reported-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: NWANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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>

Implements the AF_INET link address family exposing the per
device configuration settings via netlink using the attribute
IFLA_INET_CONF.

The format of IFLA_INET_CONF differs depending on the direction
the attribute is sent. The attribute sent by the kernel consists
of a u32 array, basically a 1:1 copy of in_device->cnf.data[].
The attribute expected by the kernel must consist of a sequence
of nested u32 attributes, each representing a change request,
e.g.
	[IFLA_INET_CONF] = {
		[IPV4_DEVCONF_FORWARDING] = 1,
		[IPV4_DEVCONF_NOXFRM] = 0,
	}

libnl userspace API documentation and example available from:
http://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/doc-git/group__link__inet.htmlSigned-off-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Convert inetdev_by_index() to not increment in_dev refcount.

Callers hold RCU or RTNL, and should not decrement in_dev refcount.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

dev->ip_ptr is protected by rtnl and rcu.

Yet some places dont use appropriate primitives and/or locking rules.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Currently such notifications are only generated when the device comes up or the
address changes. However one use case for these notifications is to enable
faster network recovery after a virtual machine migration (by causing switches
to relearn their MAC tables). A migration appears to the network stack as a
temporary loss of carrier and therefore does not trigger either of the current
conditions. Rather than adding carrier up as a trigger (which can cause issues
when interfaces a flapping) simply add an interface which the driver can use
to explicitly trigger the notification.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

When a dump is interrupted at the last device in a hash chain and
then continued, "idx" won't get incremented past s_idx, so s_ip_idx
is not reset when moving on to the next device. This means of all
following devices only the last n - s_ip_idx addresses are dumped.
Tested-by: NPawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl>
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Since generally there could be more netdevices changing type other
than bonding, making this event type name "bonding-unrelated"
Signed-off-by: NJiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Yuck.  It turns out that when we restart sysctls we were restarting
with the values already changed.  Which unfortunately meant that
the second time through we thought there was no change and skipped
all kinds of work, despite the fact that there was indeed a change.

I have fixed this the simplest way possible by restoring the changed
values when we restart the sysctl write.

One of my coworkers spotted this bug when after disabling forwarding
on an interface pings were still forwarded.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Stop computing the number of neighbour table settings we have by
counting the number of binary sysctls.  This behaviour was silly
and meant that we could not add another neighbour table setting
without also adding another binary sysctl.

Don't pass the binary sysctl path for neighour table entries
into neigh_sysctl_register.  These parameters are no longer
used and so are just dead code.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Stop using the binary sysctl enumeartion in sysctl.h as an index into
a per interface array.  This leads to unnecessary binary sysctl number
allocation, and a fragility in data structure and implementation
because of unnecessary coupling.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069,
that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with
each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router.  As
described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to
communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing.

This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same
interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).

Tunable per device via proc "proxy_arp_pvlan":
  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/proxy_arp_pvlan

This switch technology is known by different vendor names:
 - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
 - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
 - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
 - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
Signed-off-by: NJesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

when using policy routing and the skb mark:
there are cases where a back path validation requires us
to use a different routing table for src ip validation than
the one used for mapping ingress dst ip.
One such a case is transparent proxying where we pretend to be
the destination system and therefore the local table
is used for incoming packets but possibly a main table would
be used on outbound.
Make the default behavior to allow the above and if users
need to turn on the symmetry via sysctl src_valid_mark
Signed-off-by: NJamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commit 8ec1e0ebe26087bfc5c0394ada5feb5758014fc8
Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date:   Thu Dec 3 12:16:35 2009 +0100

    ipv4: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses

    Change fib_validate_source() to accept packets with a local source address when
    the "accept_local" sysctl is set for the incoming inet device. Combined with the
    previous patches, this allows to communicate between multiple local interfaces
    over the wire.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Generated with the following semantic patch

@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 == n2
+ net_eq(n1, n2)

@@
struct net *n1;
struct net *n2;
@@
- n1 != n2
+ !net_eq(n1, n2)

applied over {include,net,drivers/net}.
Signed-off-by: NOctavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:11:36 +0100
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When handling large number of netdevices, inet_dump_ifaddr()
>> is very slow because it has O(N^2) complexity.
>>
>> Instead of scanning one single list, we can use the NETDEV_HASHENTRIES
>> sub lists of the dev_index hash table, and RCU lookups.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>
> You might be able to make RCU critical section smaller by moving
> it into loop.
>

Indeed. But we dump at most one skb (<= 8192 bytes ?), so rcu_read_lock
holding time is small, unless we meet many netdevices without
addresses. I wonder if its really common...

Thanks

[PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv4: speedup inet_dump_ifaddr()

When handling large number of netdevices, inet_dump_ifaddr()
is very slow because it has O(N2) complexity.

Instead of scanning one single list, we can use the NETDEV_HASHENTRIES
sub lists of the dev_index hash table, and RCU lookups.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>