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Jim Paris 23717795be [IPV6]: Update MSS even if MTU is unchanged.
This is needed because in ndisc.c, we have:

  static void ndisc_router_discovery(struct sk_buff *skb)
  {
  // ...
  	if (ndopts.nd_opts_mtu) {
  // ...
  			if (rt)
  				rt->u.dst.metrics[RTAX_MTU-1] = mtu;

  			rt6_mtu_change(skb->dev, mtu);
  // ...
  }

Since the mtu is set directly here, rt6_mtu_change_route thinks that
it is unchanged, and so it fails to update the MSS accordingly.  This
patch lets rt6_mtu_change_route still update MSS if old_mtu == new_mtu.

Signed-off-by: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:28:21 -08:00
Eric Dumazet e242297055 [NET]: should explicitely initialize atomic_t field in struct dst_ops
All but one struct dst_ops static initializations miss explicit
initialization of entries field.

As this field is atomic_t, we should use ATOMIC_INIT(0), and not
rely on atomic_t implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:23 -08:00
Benjamin Thery 2216b48376 [NETNS]: Add missing initialization of nl_info.nl_net in rtm_to_fib6_config()
Add missing initialization of the new nl_info.nl_net field in
rtm_to_fib6_config(). This will be needed the store network namespace
associated to the fib6_config struct.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:20 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano 569d36452e [NETNS][DST] dst: pass the dst_ops as parameter to the gc functions
The garbage collection function receive the dst_ops structure as
parameter. This is useful for the next incoming patchset because it
will need the dst_ops (there will be several instances) and the
network namespace pointer (contained in the dst_ops).

The protocols which do not take care of the namespaces will not be
impacted by this change (expect for the function signature), they do
just ignore the parameter.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:02:46 -08:00
Ilpo Järvinen 50eb431d6e [IPV6] route: kill some bloat
net/ipv6/route.c:
  ip6_pkt_prohibit_out | -130
  ip6_pkt_discard      | -261
  ip6_pkt_discard_out  | -130
  ip6_pkt_prohibit     | -261
 4 functions changed, 782 bytes removed, diff: -782

net/ipv6/route.c:
  ip6_pkt_drop | +300
 1 function changed, 300 bytes added, diff: +300

net/ipv6/route.o:
 5 functions changed, 300 bytes added, 782 bytes removed, diff: -482

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:49 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 4d1169c1e7 [NETNS]: Add netns to nl_info structure.
nl_info is used to track the end-user destination of routing change
notification. This is a natural object to hold a namespace on. Place
it there and utilize the context in the appropriate places.

Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:29 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano 4990509f19 [NETNS][IPV6]: Make sysctls route per namespace.
All the sysctl concerning the routes are moved to the network
namespace structure. A helper function is called to initialize the
variables.

Because the ipv6 protocol is not yet per namespace, the variables are
accessed relatively from the network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:20 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano 760f2d0186 [NETNS][IPV6]: Make multiple instance of sysctl tables.
Each network namespace wants its own set of sysctl value, eg. we
should not be able from a namespace to set a sysctl value for another
namespace , especially for the initial network namespace.

This patch duplicates the sysctl table when we register a new network
namespace for ipv6. The duplicated table are postfixed with the
"template" word to notify the developper the table is cloned.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:01:17 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 528c4ceb42 [IPV6]: Always pass a valid nl_info to inet6_rt_notify.
This makes the code in the inet6_rt_notify more straightforward and provides
groud for namespace passing.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:57:55 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano 7e5449c215 [IPV6]: route6 remove ifdef for fib_rules
The patch defines the usual static inline functions when the code is
disabled for fib6_rules. That's allow to remove some ifdef in route.c
file and make the code a little more clear.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:59 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano c35b7e72cd [IPV6]: remove ifdef in route6 for xfrm6
The following patch create the usual static inline functions to disable
the xfrm6_init and xfrm6_fini function when XFRM is off.
That's allow to remove some ifdef and make the code a little more clear.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:59 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano 75314fb383 [IPV6]: create route6 proc init-fini functions
Make the proc creation/destruction to be a separate function. That
allows to remove the #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS in the init/fini function
and make them more readable.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:58 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano f845ab6b7d [IPV6] route6/fib6: Don't panic a kmem_cache_create.
If the kmem_cache_creation fails, the kernel will panic. It is
acceptable if the system is booting, but if the ipv6 protocol is
compiled as a module and it is loaded after the system has booted, do
we want to panic instead of just failing to initialize the protocol ?

The init function is now returning an error and this one is checked
for protocol initialization. So the ipv6 protocol will safely fails.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:48 -08:00
Daniel Lezcano 433d49c3bb [IPV6]: Make ip6_route_init to return an error code.
The route initialization function does not return any value to notify
if the initialization is successful or not. This patch checks all
calls made for the initilization in order to return a value for the
caller.

Unfortunately, proc_net_fops_create will return a NULL pointer if
CONFIG_PROC_FS is off, so we can not check the return code without an
ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS block in the ip6_route_init function.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:47 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 5a3e55d68e [NET]: Multiple namespaces in the all dst_ifdown routines.
Move dst entries to a namespace loopback to catch refcounting leaks.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:56:44 -08:00
Fred L. Templin c7dc89c0ac [IPV6]: Add RFC4214 support
This patch includes support for the Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel
Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) per RFC4214. It uses the SIT
module, and is configured using extensions to the "iproute2"
utility. The diffs are specific to the Linux 2.6.24-rc2 kernel
distribution.

This version includes the diff for ./include/linux/if.h which was
missing in the v2.4 submission and is needed to make the
patch compile. The patch has been installed, compiled and
tested in a clean 2.6.24-rc2 kernel build area.

Signed-off-by: Fred L. Templin <fred.l.templin@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:55:09 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev 97c53cacf0 [NET]: Make rtnetlink infrastructure network namespace aware (v3)
After this patch none of the netlink callback support anything
except the initial network namespace but the rtnetlink infrastructure
now handles multiple network namespaces.

Changes from v2:
- IPv6 addrlabel processing

Changes from v1:
- no need for special rtnl_unlock handling
- fixed IPv6 ndisc

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:54:25 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev b854272b3c [NET]: Modify all rtnetlink methods to only work in the initial namespace (v2)
Before I can enable rtnetlink to work in all network namespaces I need
to be certain that something won't break.  So this patch deliberately
disables all of the rtnletlink methods in everything except the
initial network namespace.  After the methods have been audited this
extra check can be disabled.

Changes from v1:
- added IPv6 addrlabel protection

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-01-28 14:54:24 -08:00
Herbert Xu 862b82c6f9 [IPSEC]: Merge most of the output path
As part of the work on asynchrnous cryptographic operations, we need
to be able to resume from the spot where they occur.  As such, it
helps if we isolate them to one spot.

This patch moves most of the remaining family-specific processing into
the common output code.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:48 -08:00
Herbert Xu 352e512c32 [NET]: Eliminate duplicate copies of dst_discard
We have a number of copies of dst_discard scattered around the place
which all do the same thing, namely free a packet on the input or
output paths.

This patch deletes all of them except dst_discard and points all the
users to it.

The only non-trivial bit is decnet where it returns an error.
However, conceptually this is identical to the blackhole functions
used in IPv4 and IPv6 which do not return errors.  So they should
either all return errors or all return zero.  For now I've stuck with
the majority and picked zero as the return value.

It doesn't really matter in practice since few if any driver would
react differently depending on a zero return value or NET_RX_DROP.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 14:53:37 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 398bcbebb6 [IPV6] ROUTE: Make sending algorithm more friendly with RFC 4861.
We omit (or delay) sending NSes for known-to-unreachable routers (in
NUD_FAILED state) according to RFC 4191 (Default Router Preferences
and More-Specific Routes).  But this is not fully compatible with RFC
4861 (Neighbor Discovery Protocol for IPv6), which does not remember
unreachability of neighbors.

So, let's avoid mixing sending algorithm of RFC 4191 and that of RFC
4861, and make the algorithm more friendly with RFC 4861 if RFC 4191
is disabled.

Issue was found by IPv6 Ready Logo Core Self_Test 1.5.0b2 (by TAHI
Project), and has been tracked down by Mitsuru Chinen
<mitch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-20 20:31:40 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 03f49f3457 [NET]: Make helper to get dst entry and "use" it
There are many places that get the dst entry, increase the
__use counter and set the "lastuse" time stamp.

Make a helper for this.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-10 21:28:34 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 33120b30cc [IPV6]: Convert /proc/net/ipv6_route to seq_file interface
This removes last proc_net_create() user. Kudos to Benjamin Thery and
Stephen Hemminger for comments on previous version.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:09:18 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 428b367bff sysctl: ipv6 route flushing (kill binary path)
We don't preoperly support the sysctl binary path for flushing the ipv6
routes.  So remove support for a binary path.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:22 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 4acad72ded [IPV6]: Consolidate the ip6_pol_route_(input|output) pair
The difference in both functions is in the "id" passed to
the rt6_select, so just pass it as an extra argument from
two outer helpers.

This is minus 60 lines of code and 360 bytes of .text

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-15 13:02:51 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 2774c7aba6 [NET]: Make the loopback device per network namespace.
This patch makes loopback_dev per network namespace.  Adding
code to create a different loopback device for each network
namespace and adding the code to free a loopback device
when a network namespace exits.

This patch modifies all users the loopback_dev so they
access it as init_net.loopback_dev, keeping all of the
code compiling and working.  A later pass will be needed to
update the users to use something other than the initial network
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:49 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano de3cb747ff [NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 1.
This patch replaces all occurences to the static variable
loopback_dev to a pointer loopback_dev. That provides the
mindless, trivial, uninteressting change part for the dynamic
allocation for the loopback.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:52:14 -07:00
Thomas Graf 8f4c1f9b04 [NETLINK]: Introduce nested and byteorder flag to netlink attribute
This change allows the generic attribute interface to be used within
the netfilter subsystem where this flag was initially introduced.

The byte-order flag is yet unused, it's intended use is to
allow automatic byte order convertions for all atomic types.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:16 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 881d966b48 [NET]: Make the device list and device lookups per namespace.
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network
namespace safe.  This patch makes dev_base_head a
network namespace variable, and then it picks up
a few associated variables.  The functions:
dev_getbyhwaddr
dev_getfirsthwbytype
dev_get_by_flags
dev_get_by_name
__dev_get_by_name
dev_get_by_index
__dev_get_by_index
dev_ioctl
dev_ethtool
dev_load
wireless_process_ioctl

were modified to take a network namespace argument, and
deal with it.

vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their
hooks will receive a network namespace argument.

So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was
affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle
multiple network namespaces.  The rest of the network stack was
simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network
namespace.  This can be fixed when those components of the network
stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces.

For now the ifindex generator is left global.

Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else
we will have corner case problems with migration when
we get that far.

At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack
that the ifindex of a network device won't change.  Making
the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until
the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when
you change namespaces, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:10 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 457c4cbc5a [NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespace
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace.  It modifies the global
variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace.
The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument,
and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument.
This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and
usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them
has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces.

Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files
in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per
network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents
that are relevant to a single network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:06 -07:00
Simon Arlott 566cfd8f0e [IPV6]: Don't update ADVMSS on routes where the MTU is not also updated
The ADVMSS value was incorrectly updated for ALL routes when the MTU
is updated because it's outside the effect of the if statement's
condition.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-31 02:28:04 -07:00
Paul Mundt 20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Patrick McHardy ef7c79ed64 [NETLINK]: Mark netlink policies const
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-06-07 13:40:10 -07:00
David S. Miller 14e50e57ae [XFRM]: Allow packet drops during larval state resolution.
The current IPSEC rule resolution behavior we have does not work for a
lot of people, even though technically it's an improvement from the
-EAGAIN buisness we had before.

Right now we'll block until the key manager resolves the route.  That
works for simple cases, but many folks would rather packets get
silently dropped until the key manager resolves the IPSEC rules.

We can't tell these folks to "set the socket non-blocking" because
they don't have control over the non-block setting of things like the
sockets used to resolve DNS deep inside of the resolver libraries in
libc.

With that in mind I coded up the patch below with some help from
Herbert Xu which provides packet-drop behavior during larval state
resolution, controllable via sysctl and off by default.

This lays the framework to either:

1) Make this default at some point or...

2) Move this logic into xfrm{4,6}_policy.c and implement the
   ARP-like resolution queue we've all been dreaming of.
   The idea would be to queue packets to the policy, then
   once the larval state is resolved by the key manager we
   re-resolve the route and push the packets out.  The
   packets would timeout if the rule didn't get resolved
   in a certain amount of time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-24 18:17:54 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 952a10be32 [IPV6] SNMP: Fix several warnings without procfs.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2007-04-25 22:29:36 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 3ff50b7997 [NET]: cleanup extra semicolons
Spring cleaning time...

There seems to be a lot of places in the network code that have
extra bogus semicolons after conditionals.  Most commonly is a
bogus semicolon after: switch() { }

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:24 -07:00
Thomas Graf c127ea2c45 [IPv6]: Use rtnl registration interface
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:27:13 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0660e03f6b [SK_BUFF]: Introduce ipv6_hdr(), remove skb->nh.ipv6h
Now the skb->nh union has just one member, .raw, i.e. it is just like the
skb->mac union, strange, no? I'm just leaving it like that till the transport
layer is done with, when we'll rename skb->mac.raw to skb->mac_header (or
->mac_header_offset?), ditto for ->{h,nh}.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:25:14 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 459a98ed88 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:32 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 7159039a12 [IPV6]: Decentralize EXPORT_SYMBOLs.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2007-04-25 22:23:36 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 612f09e849 [IPV6] SNMP: Fix {In,Out}NoRoutes statistics.
A packet which is being discarded because of no routes in the
forwarding path should not be counted as OutNoRoutes but as
InNoRoutes.
Additionally, on this occasion, a packet whose destinaion is
not valid should be counted as InAddrErrors separately.

Based on patch from Mitsuru Chinen <mitch@linux.vnet.ibm.com>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-13 16:18:02 -07:00
David S. Miller 161980f4c6 [IPV6]: Revert recent change to rt6_check_dev().
This reverts a0d78ebf3a

It causes pings to link-local addresses to fail.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-06 11:42:27 -07:00
David S. Miller f11e6659ce [IPV6]: Fix routing round-robin locking.
As per RFC2461, section 6.3.6, item #2, when no routers on the
matching list are known to be reachable or probably reachable we
do round robin on those available routes so that we make sure
to probe as many of them as possible to detect when one becomes
reachable faster.

Each routing table has a rwlock protecting the tree and the linked
list of routes at each leaf.  The round robin code executes during
lookup and thus with the rwlock taken as a reader.  A small local
spinlock tries to provide protection but this does not work at all
for two reasons:

1) The round-robin list manipulation, as coded, goes like this (with
   read lock held):

	walk routes finding head and tail

	spin_lock();
	rotate list using head and tail
	spin_unlock();

   While one thread is rotating the list, another thread can
   end up with stale values of head and tail and then proceed
   to corrupt the list when it gets the lock.  This ends up causing
   the OOPS in fib6_add() later onthat many people have been hitting.

2) All the other code paths that run with the rwlock held as
   a reader do not expect the list to change on them, they
   expect it to remain completely fixed while they hold the
   lock in that way.

So, simply stated, it is impossible to implement this correctly using
a manipulation of the list without violating the rwlock locking
semantics.

Reimplement using a per-fib6_node round-robin pointer.  This way we
don't need to manipulate the list at all, and since the round-robin
pointer can only ever point to real existing entries we don't need
to perform any locking on the changing of the round-robin pointer
itself.  We only need to reset the round-robin pointer to NULL when
the entry it is pointing to is removed.

The idea is from Thomas Graf and it is very similar to how this
was implemented before the advanced router selection code when in.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-25 18:48:05 -07:00
Dave Jones b6f99a2119 [NET]: fix up misplaced inlines.
Turning up the warnings on gcc makes it emit warnings
about the placement of 'inline' in function declarations.
Here's everything that was under net/

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-22 12:27:49 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 9a32144e9d [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 7
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
Eric Dumazet 7cc482634f [IPV6]: Convert ipv6 route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
This patch removes the next pointer from 'struct rt6_info.u' union,
and renames u.next to u.dst.rt6_next.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:20:40 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 1ab1457c42 [NET] IPV6: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:19:42 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki a0d78ebf3a [IPV6] ROUTE: Do not route packets to link-local address on other device.
With help from Wei Dong <weid@np.css.fujitsu.com>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:38:42 -08:00
Patrick McHardy 26932566a4 [NETLINK]: Don't BUG on undersized allocations
Currently netlink users BUG when the allocated skb for an event
notification is undersized. While this is certainly a kernel bug,
its not critical and crashing the kernel is too drastic, especially
when considering that these errors have appeared multiple times in
the past and it BUGs even if no listeners are present.

This patch replaces BUG by WARN_ON and changes the notification
functions to inform potential listeners of undersized allocations
using a unique error code (EMSGSIZE).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08 12:38:41 -08:00
Noriaki TAKAMIYA 6a2b9ce0a3 [IPV6]: Fixed the size of the netlink message notified by inet6_rt_notify().
I think the return value of rt6_nlmsg_size() should includes the
amount of RTA_METRICS.

Signed-off-by: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-23 22:09:41 -08:00