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2011-09-28connector: add comm change event report to proc connectorVladimir Zapolskiy
Add an event to monitor comm value changes of tasks. Such an event becomes vital, if someone desires to control threads of a process in different manner. A natural characteristic of threads is its comm value, and helpfully application developers have an opportunity to change it in runtime. Reporting about such events via proc connector allows to fine-grain monitoring and control potentials, for instance a process control daemon listening to proc connector and following comm value policies can place specific threads to assigned cgroup partitions. It might be possible to achieve a pale partial one-shot likeness without this update, if an application changes comm value of a thread generator task beforehand, then a new thread is cloned, and after that proc connector listener gets the fork event and reads new thread's comm value from procfs stat file, but this change visibly simplifies and extends the matter. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-28proc_fork_connector: a lockless ->real_parent usage is not safeOleg Nesterov
proc_fork_connector() uses ->real_parent lockless. This is not safe if copy_process() was called with CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_PARENT, in this case the parent != current can go away at any moment. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25drivers/connector/cn_proc.c: remove unused localAndrew Morton
Fix the warning drivers/connector/cn_proc.c: In function 'proc_ptrace_connector': drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:176: warning: unused variable 'tracer' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/miscLinus Torvalds
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (39 commits) ptrace: do_wait(traced_leader_killed_by_mt_exec) can block forever ptrace: fix ptrace_signal() && STOP_DEQUEUED interaction connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers ptrace: dont send SIGSTOP on auto-attach if PT_SEIZED ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task() ptrace_init_task: initialize child->jobctl explicitly has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/ ptrace: make former thread ID available via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG after PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC stop ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/ ptrace: kill real_parent_is_ptracer() in in favor of ptrace_reparented() ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group() redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0 do not change dead_task->exit_signal kill task_detached() reparent_leader: check EXIT_DEAD instead of task_detached() make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers __ptrace_detach: avoid task_detached(), check do_notify_parent() kill tracehook_notify_death() make do_notify_parent() return bool ptrace: s/tracehook_tracer_task()/ptrace_parent()/ ...
2011-07-18connector: add an event for monitoring process tracersVladimir Zapolskiy
This change adds a procfs connector event, which is emitted on every successful process tracer attach or detach. If some process connects to other one, kernelspace connector reports process id and thread group id of both these involved processes. On disconnection null process id is returned. Such an event allows to create a simple automated userspace mechanism to be aware about processes connecting to others, therefore predefined process policies can be applied to them if needed. Note, a detach signal is emitted only in case, if a tracer process explicitly executes PTRACE_DETACH request. In other cases like tracee or tracer exit detach event from proc connector is not reported. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-07Connector: Correctly set the error code in case of success when dispatching ↵K. Y. Srinivasan
receive callbacks The recent changes to the connector code introduced this bug where even when a callback was invoked, we would return an error resulting in double freeing of the skb. This patch fixes this bug. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [.39] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-12connector: fix skb double free in cn_rx_skb()Patrick McHardy
When a skb is delivered to a registered callback, cn_call_callback() incorrectly returns -ENODEV after freeing the skb, causing cn_rx_skb() to free the skb a second time. Reported-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-30connector: convert to synchronous netlink message processingPatrick McHardy
Commits 01a16b21 (netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms) and c53fa1ed (netlink: kill loginuid/sessionid/sid members from struct netlink_skb_parms) removed some members from struct netlink_skb_parms that depend on the current context, all netlink users are now required to do synchronous message processing. connector however queues received messages and processes them in a work queue, which is not valid anymore. This patch converts connector to do synchronous message processing by invoking the registered callback handler directly from the netlink receive function. In order to avoid invoking the callback with connector locks held, a reference count is added to struct cn_callback_entry, the reference is taken when finding a matching callback entry on the device's queue_list and released after the callback handler has been invoked. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-02-23connector: Convert char *name to const char *nameJoe Perches
Allow more const declarations. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-12-17connector: Use this_cpu operationsChristoph Lameter
The patch was originally in the use cpuops patchset but it needs an inc_return and is therefore dependent on an extension of the cpu ops. Fixed up and verified that it compiles. get_seq can benefit from this_cpu_operations. Address calculation is avoided and the increment is done using an xadd. Cc: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-10connector: add module aliasStephen Hemminger
Since connector can be built as a module and uses netlink socket to communicate. The module should have an alias to autoload when socket of NETLINK_CONNECTOR type is requested. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-24connector: remove lazy workqueue creationTejun Heo
Commit 1a5645bc (connector: create connector workqueue only while needed once) implements lazy workqueue creation for connector workqueue. With cmwq now in place, lazy workqueue creation doesn't make much sense while adding a lot of complexity. Remove it and allocate an ordered workqueue during initialization. This also removes a call to flush_scheduled_work() which is deprecated and scheduled to be removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-02-02connector: Delete buggy notification code.Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:57:14PM -0800, Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote: > > There are at least two ways to fix it: using a big cannon and a small > > one. The former way is to disable notification registration, since it is > > not used by anyone at all. Second way is to check whether calling > > process is root and its destination group is -1 (kind of priveledged > > one) before command is dispatched to workqueue. > > Well if no one is using it, removing it makes the most sense, right? > > No objection from me, care to make up a patch either way for this? Getting it is not used, let's drop support for notifications about (un)registered events from connector. Another option was to check credentials on receiving, but we can always restore it without bugs if needed, but genetlink has a wider code base and none complained, that userspace can not get notification when some other clients were (un)registered. Kudos for Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>, who found a bug in the code. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-06connector: Fix incompatible pointer type warningStephen Boyd
Commit 7069331 (connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback, 2009-10-02) changed callbacks to take two arguments but missed this one. drivers/connector/cn_proc.c: In function ‘cn_proc_init’: drivers/connector/cn_proc.c:263: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘cn_add_callback’ from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-02connector: Removed the destruct_data callback since it is always kfree_skb()Philipp Reisner
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-02connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callbackPhilipp Reisner
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-02connector: Keep the skb in cn_callback_dataPhilipp Reisner
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-23proc connector: add event for process becoming session leaderScott James Remnant
The act of a process becoming a session leader is a useful signal to a supervising init daemon such as Upstart. While a daemon will normally do this as part of the process of becoming a daemon, it is rare for its children to do so. When the children do, it is nearly always a sign that the child should be considered detached from the parent and not supervised along with it. The poster-child example is OpenSSH; the per-login children call setsid() so that they may control the pty connected to them. If the primary daemon dies or is restarted, we do not want to consider the per-login children and want to respawn the primary daemon without killing the children. This patch adds a new PROC_SID_EVENT and associated structure to the proc_event event_data union, it arranges for this to be emitted when the special PIDTYPE_SID pid is set. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-23Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/netdev.c net/wireless/scan.c
2009-07-21connector: maintainer/mail update.Evgeniy Polyakov
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17connector: make callback argument type explicitMike Frysinger
The connector documentation states that the argument to the callback function is always a pointer to a struct cn_msg, but rather than encode it in the API itself, it uses a void pointer everywhere. This doesn't make much sense to encode the pointer in documentation as it prevents proper C type checking from occurring and can easily allow people to use the wrong pointer type. So convert the argument type to an explicit struct cn_msg pointer. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-12trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module namesPavel Machek
.ko is normally not included in Kconfig help, make it consistent. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-02-02connector: create connector workqueue only while needed onceFrederic Weisbecker
The netlink connector uses its own workqueue to relay the datas sent from userspace to the appropriate callback. If you launch the test from Documentation/connector and change it a bit to send a high flow of data, you will see thousands of events coming to the "cqueue" workqueue by looking at the workqueue tracer. This flow of events can be sent very quickly. So, to not encumber the kevent workqueue and delay other jobs, the "cqueue" workqueue should remain. But this workqueue is pointless most of the time, it will always be created (assuming you have built it of course) although only developpers with specific needs will use it. So avoid this "most of the time useless task", this patch proposes to create this workqueue only when needed once. The first jobs to be sent to connector callbacks will be sent to kevent while the "cqueue" thread creation will be scheduled to kevent too. The following jobs will continue to be scheduled to keventd until the cqueue workqueue is created, and then the rest of the jobs will continue to perform as usual, through this dedicated workqueue. Each time I tested this patch, only the first event was sent to keventd, the rest has been sent to cqueue which have been created quickly. Also, this patch fixes some trailing whitespaces on the connector files. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-14CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own credsDavid Howells
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Separate task security context from task_structDavid Howells
Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers pointing to it. Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in entry.S via asm-offsets. With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-06-27CONNECTOR: add a proc entry to list connectorsLi Zefan
I got a problem when I wanted to check if the kernel supports process event connector, and It seems there's no way to do this check. At best I can check if the kernel supports connector or not, by looking into /proc/net/netlink, or maybe checking the return value of bind() to see if it's ENOENT. So it would be useful to add /proc/net/connector to list all supported connectors: # cat /proc/net/connector Name ID connector 4294967295:4294967295 cn_proc 1:1 w1 3:1 Changelog: - fix memory leak: s/seq_release/single_release - use spin_lock_bh instead of spin_lock_irqsave Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-23connector: convert to single-threaded workqueueEvgeniy Polyakov
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> We don't need one cqueue thread for each CPU. cqueue is used for receiving userspace datagrams, which are very rare and thus will happily live with a single queue. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-26CONNECTOR: make cn_already_initialized staticLi Zefan
It is used in connector.c only, so make it static. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[NETNS]: Consolidate kernel netlink socket destruction.Denis V. Lunev
Create a specific helper for netlink kernel socket disposal. This just let the code look better and provides a ground for proper disposal inside a namespace. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[CONNECTOR]: Cleanup struct cn_callback_entryLi Zefan
- 'cb' is a fake struct member. In a previous patch struct cn_callback was renamed to cn_callback_id, so 'cb' should have been deleted at that time. - 'nls' isn't used and is redundant, we can retrieve this data through cn_callback_entry.pdev->nls. - 'seq' and 'group' should be u32, as they are declared to be u32 in other places. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[CONNECTOR]: Cleanup struct cn_queue_devLi Zefan
Struct member netlink_groups is never used, and I don't see how it can be useful. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[CONNECTOR]: clean up {,__}cn_rx_skb()Li Zefan
- __cn_rx_skb() does nothing but calls cn_call_callback(), it doesn't check skb and msg sizes as the comment suggests, but cn_rx_skb() checks those sizes. - In cn_rx_skb() Local variable 'len' is not used. 'len' is probably intended to be passed to skb_pull(), but here skb_pull() is not needed, instead skb_free() is called. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28[CONNECTOR]: add a missing break in cn_netlink_send()Li Zefan
Each entry in the list has a unique id, so just break out of the loop if the matched id is found. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-08[CONNECTOR]: Don't touch queue dev after decrement of ref count.Li Zefan
cn_queue_free_callback() will touch 'dev'(i.e. cbq->pdev), so it should be called before atomic_dec(&dev->refcnt). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-04[CONNECTOR]: Return proper error code in cn_call_callback()Li Zefan
Error code should be set to EINVAL instead of ENODEV if !queue_work(). There's another call of queue_work() which may set err to EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-30[CONNECTOR]: Fix a spurious kfree_skb() callMichal Januszewski
Remove a spurious call to kfree_skb() in the connector rx_skb handler. This fixes a regression introduced by the '[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious' patch (cd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0) Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchroniousDenis V. Lunev
This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious. This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced asynchronious user -> kernel communication. The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the user. Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing may occur in the arbitrary process context. This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet processing right in the netlink_unicast. Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched. EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlinkEric W. Biederman
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace, this includes the controlling kernel sockets. This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols to only support the initial network namespace. Request by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED. As they would if the kernel did not have the support for that netlink protocol compiled in. As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces. The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation at hash table insertion and hash table look up time. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-16Use menuconfig objects: connectorJan Engelhardt
Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once instead of going through all options. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override itPatrick McHardy
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks. All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any side-effects of the previously used spinlock. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Introduce nlmsg_hdr() helperArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common "(struct nlmsghdr *)skb->data" sequence, so that we reduce the number of direct accesses to skb->data and for consistency with all the other cast skb member helpers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-07[CONNECTOR]: Bugfix for cn_call_callback()Philipp Reisner
When system under heavy stress and must allocate new work instead of reusing old one, new work must use correct completion callback. Patch is based on Philipp's and Lars' work. I only cleaned small stuff (and removed spaces instead of tabs). Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-05[PATCH] connector: some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errorsErik Jacobson
On ia64, the various functions that make up cn_proc.c cause kernel unaligned access errors. If you are using these, for example, to get notification about all tasks forking and exiting, you get multiple unaligned access errors per process. Use put_unaligned() in the appropriate palces to fix this. Signed-off-by: Erik Jacobson <erikj@sgi.com> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-18[CONNECTOR]: Replace delayed work with usual work queue.Evgeniy Polyakov
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-17[CONNECTOR]: Fix compilation breakage introduced recently.Evgeniy Polyakov
Linus has changed work queue structure and has not tested it with connector compiled in, his changes break the build. Attached patch fixes compilation error. Patch is against commit 99f5e9718185f07458ae70c2282c2153a2256c91. Thanks to Toralf Förster for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-22WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells
Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-07-31[PATCH] Process Events: Fix biarch compatibility issue. use __u64 timestampChandra Seetharaman
Events sent by Process Events Connector from a 64-bit kernel are not binary compatible with a 32-bit userspace program because the "timestamp" field (struct timespec) is not arch independent. This affects the fields that follow "timestamp" as they will be be off by 8 bytes. This is a problem for 32-bit userspace programs running with 64-bit kernels on ppc64, s390, x86-64.. any "biarch" system. Matt had submitted a different solution to lkml as an RFC earlier. We have since switched to a solution recommended by Evgeniy Polyakov. This patch fixes the problem by changing the timestamp to be a __u64, which stores the number of nanoseconds. Tested on a x86_64 system with both 32 bit application and 64 bit application and on a i386 system. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23[PATCH] connector-exportsAndrew Morton
Put the connector exports at the functions so people can see them in context. Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>