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2007-04-27debugfs: Add debugfs_create_u64()Michael Ellerman
I went to use this the other day, only to find it didn't exist. It's a straight copy of the debugfs u32 code, then s/u32/u64/. A quick test shows it seems to be working. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27the overdue removal of the mount/umount ueventsAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystemGreg Kroah-Hartman
It isn't used at all by the driver core anymore, and the few usages of it within the kernel have now all been fixed as most of them were using it incorrectly. So remove it. Now the whole struct subsys can be removed from the system, but that's for a later patch... Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_typeDmitry Torokhov
Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_type In cases when there are devices of different types in the same class we can't use class's implementation of suspend and resume methods and we need to add them to struct device_type instead. Also fix error handling in resume code (we should not try to call class's resume method iof bus's resume method for the device failed. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: remove unneeded completion from driver release pathGreg Kroah-Hartman
The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference count of attributes. It is not needed at all and can be removed. Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure. This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the future. But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be reference counted properly in order to work correctly. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: per-subsystem multithreaded probingCornelia Huck
Make multithreaded probing work per subsystem instead of per driver. It doesn't make much sense to probe the same device for multiple drivers in parallel (after all, only one driver can bind to the device). Instead, create a probing thread for each device that probes the drivers one after another. Also make the decision to use multi-threaded probe per bus instead of per device and adapt the pci code. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: add name to device_typeKay Sievers
If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable. This helps userspace to distingiush between different types of devices, belonging to the same subsystem. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: Use attribute groups in struct device_typeDmitry Torokhov
Driver core: use attribute groups in struct device_type Attribute groups are more flexible than attribute lists (an attribute list can be represented by anonymous group) so switch struct device_type to use them. Also rework attribute creation for devices so that they all cleaned up properly in case of errors. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: udev triggered device-<>driver bindingKay Sievers
We get two per-bus sysfs files: ls-l /sys/subsystem/usb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-16 16:42 devices drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2007-02-16 14:55 drivers -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_autoprobe --w------- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_probe The flag "drivers_autoprobe" controls the behavior of the bus to bind devices by default, or just initialize the device and leave it alone. The command "drivers_probe" accepts a bus_id and the bus tries to bind a driver to this device. Systems who want to control the driver binding with udev, switch off the bus initiated probing: echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/usb/drivers_autoprobe echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/pcmcia/drivers_autoprobe ... and initiate the probing with udev rules like: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pcmcia", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel" ... Custom driver binding can happen in earlier rules by something like: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \ ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5678" \ ATTR{subsystem/drivers/<custom-driver>/bind}="$kernel" This is intended to solve the modprobe.conf mess with "install-rules", custom bind/unbind-scripts and all the weird things people invented over the years. It should also provide the functionality "libusual" was supposed to do. With udev, one can just write a udev rule to drive all USB-disks at the third port of USB-hub by the "ub" driver, and everything else by usb-storage. One can also instruct udev to bind different wireless drivers to identical cards - just selected by the pcmcia slot-number, and whatever ... To use the mentioned rules, it needs udev version 106, to be able to write ATTR{}="$kernel" to sysfs files. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classesKay Sievers
- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories belonging to this class - merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic. - removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class leaves the directory. There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed to work with network and sound modules. :) From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (67 commits) [SCSI] SUNESP: Complete driver rewrite to version 2.0 [SPARC64]: Convert PCI over to generic struct iommu/strbuf. [SPARC]: device_node name constification fallout [SPARC64]: Convert SBUS over to generic iommu/strbuf structs. [SPARC64]: Add generic iommu and strbuf structs to iommu.h [SPARC64]: Consolidate {sbus,pci}_iommu_arena. [SPARC]: Make device_node name and type const [SPARC64]: constify some paramaters of OF routines [TIGON3]: of_get_property() returns const. [SPARC64]: Fix PCI rework to adhere to of_get_property() const return. [SPARC64]: Document and fix calculation of pages_avail. [SPARC64]: Make sure pbm->prom_node is setup easly enough in psycho.c [SPARC64]: Use bootmem_bootmap_pages() in choose_bootmap_pfn(). [SPARC64]: Add proper header file extern for cmdline_memory_size. [SPARC64]: Kill sparc_ultra_dump_{i,d}tlb() [SPARC64]: Use DECLARE_BITMAP and BITS_TO_LONGS in mm/init.c [SPARC64]: Give move verbose show_mem() output just like i386. [SPARC64]: Mark show_mem() printk's with KERN_INFO. [SPARC64]: Kill kvaddr_to_phys() and friends. [SPARC64]: Privatize sun4u_get_pte() and fix name. ...
2007-04-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (448 commits) [IPV4] nl_fib_lookup: Initialise res.r before fib_res_put(&res) [IPV6]: Fix thinko in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() changes. [IPV4]: Add multipath cached to feature-removal-schedule.txt [WIRELESS] cfg80211: Clarify locking comment. [WIRELESS] cfg80211: Fix locking in wiphy_new. [WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required. [WEXT]: Misc code cleanups. [WEXT]: Reduce inline abuse. [WEXT]: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL statements where they belong. [WEXT]: Cleanup early ioctl call path. [WEXT]: Remove options. [WEXT]: Remove dead debug code. [WEXT]: Clean up how wext is called. [WEXT]: Move to net/wireless [AFS]: Eliminate cmpxchg() usage in vlocation code. [RXRPC]: Fix pointers passed to bitops. [RXRPC]: Remove bogus atomic_* overrides. [AFS]: Fix u64 printing in debug logging. [AFS]: Add "directory write" support. [AFS]: Implement the CB.InitCallBackState3 operation. ...
2007-04-27[S390] split page_test_and_clear_dirty.Martin Schwidefsky
The page_test_and_clear_dirty primitive really consists of two operations, page_test_dirty and the page_clear_dirty. The combination of the two is not an atomic operation, so it makes more sense to have two separate operations instead of one. In addition to the improved readability of the s390 version of SetPageUptodate, it now avoids the page_test_dirty operation which is an insert-storage-key-extended (iske) instruction which is an expensive operation. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-26[WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required.Johannes Berg
This patch makes the wext bits in struct net_device depend on CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel bothDavid Howells
Provide AF_RXRPC sockets that can be used to talk to AFS servers, or serve answers to AFS clients. KerberosIV security is fully supported. The patches and some example test programs can be found in: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/ This will eventually replace the old implementation of kernel-only RxRPC currently resident in net/rxrpc/. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[AF_RXRPC]: Key facility changes for AF_RXRPCDavid Howells
Export the keyring key type definition and document its availability. Add alternative types into the key's type_data union to make it more useful. Not all users necessarily want to use it as a list_head (AF_RXRPC doesn't, for example), so make it clear that it can be used in other ways. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[WORKQUEUE]: cancel_delayed_work: use del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync()Oleg Nesterov
del_timer_sync() buys nothing for cancel_delayed_work(), but it is less efficient since it locks the timer unconditionally, and may wait for the completion of the delayed_work_timer_fn(). cancel_delayed_work() == 0 means: before this patch: work->func may still be running or queued after this patch: work->func may still be running or queued, or delayed_work_timer_fn->__queue_work() in progress. The latter doesn't differ from the caller's POV, delayed_work_timer_fn() is called with _PENDING bit set. cancel_delayed_work() == 1 with this patch adds a new possibility: delayed_work->work was cancelled, but delayed_work_timer_fn is still running (this is only possible for the re-arming works on single-threaded workqueue). In this case the timer was re-started by work->func(), nobody else can do this. This in turn means that delayed_work_timer_fn has already passed __queue_work() (and wont't touch delayed_work) because nobody else can queue delayed_work->work. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[STRING]: Move strcasecmp/strncasecmp to lib/string.cDavid S. Miller
We have several platforms using local copies of identical code. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[NET]: Delete unused header file linux/if_wanpipe_common.hRobert P. J. Day
Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/if_wanpipe_common.h, as well as the reference to it in the Doc file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[NET]: Delete unused header file linux/sdla_fr.h.Robert P. J. Day
Delete the unreferenced header file include/linux/sdla_fr.h. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-26[XFRM]: Export SAD info.Jamal Hadi Salim
On a system with a lot of SAs, counting SAD entries chews useful CPU time since you need to dump the whole SAD to user space; i.e something like ip xfrm state ls | grep -i src | wc -l I have seen taking literally minutes on a 40K SAs when the system is swapping. With this patch, some of the SAD info (that was already being tracked) is exposed to user space. i.e you do: ip xfrm state count And you get the count; you can also pass -s to the command line and get the hash info. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[BRIDGE]: drop PAUSE framesStephen Hemminger
Pause frames should never make it out of the network device into the stack. But if a device was misconfigured, it might happen. So drop pause frames in bridge. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[IPV6]: Export in6addr_any for future use.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2007-04-25[TCP]: Fix linkage errors on i386.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
To avoid raw division, use ktime_to_timeval() to get usec. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[TCP]: Congestion control API update.Stephen Hemminger
Do some simple changes to make congestion control API faster/cleaner. * use ktime_t rather than timeval * merge rtt sampling into existing ack callback this means one indirect call versus two per ack. * use flags bits to store options/settings Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[WIRELESS] cfg80211: New wireless config infrastructure.Johannes Berg
This patch creates the core cfg80211 code along with some sysfs bits. This is a stripped down version to allow mac80211 to function, but doesn't include any configuration yet except for creating and removing virtual interfaces. This patch includes the nl80211 header file but it only contains the interface types which the cfg80211 interface for creating virtual interfaces relies on. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET] skbuff: skb_store_bits const is backwardsStephen Hemminger
Getting warnings becuase skb_store_bits has skb as constant, but the function overwrites it. Looks like const was on the wrong side. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[AF_PACKET]: Add option to return orig_dev to userspace.Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr
Add a packet socket option to allow the orig_dev index to be returned to userspace when passing traffic through a decapsulated device, such as the bonding driver. This is very useful for layer 2 traffic being able to report which physical device actually received the traffic, instead of having the encapsulating device hide that information. The new option is called PACKET_ORIGDEV. Signed-off-by: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[IPV6] SNMP: Netlink interface.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[INET]: Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_RPOBEJohn Heffner
Add IP(V6)_PMTUDISC_PROBE value for IP(V6)_MTU_DISCOVER. This option forces us not to fragment, but does not make use of the kernel path MTU discovery. That is, it allows for user-mode MTU probing (or, packetization-layer path MTU discovery). This is particularly useful for diagnostic utilities, like traceroute/tracepath. Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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[NETFILTER]: ebt_arp: add gratuitous arp filteringBart De Schuymer
The attached patch adds gratuitous arp filtering, more precisely: it allows checking that the IPv4 source address matches the IPv4 destination address inside the ARP header. It also adds a check for the hardware address type when matching MAC addresses (nothing critical, just for better consistency). Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Acked-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: bridge-nf: filter bridged IPv4/IPv6 encapsulated in pppoe trafficMichael Milner
The attached patch by Michael Milner adds support for using iptables and ip6tables on bridged traffic encapsulated in ppoe frames, similar to what's already supported for vlan. Signed-off-by: Michael Milner <milner@blissisland.ca> Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[DCCP]: Complete documentation of dccp_sockGerrit Renker
This fills in missing documentation for dccp_sock fields. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25bridge: eliminate call by referenceStephen Hemminger
Change the bridging hook to be simple function with return value rather than modifying the skb argument. This could generate better code and is cleaner. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25[NET]: Treat CHECKSUM_PARTIAL as CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARYHerbert Xu
When a transmitted packet is looped back directly, CHECKSUM_PARTIAL maps to the semantics of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. Therefore we should treat it as such in the stack. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET]: Use csum_start offset instead of skb_transport_headerHerbert Xu
The skb transport pointer is currently used to specify the start of the checksum region for transmit checksum offload. Unfortunately, the same pointer is also used during receive side processing. This creates a problem when we want to retransmit a received packet with partial checksums since the skb transport pointer would be overwritten. This patch solves this problem by creating a new 16-bit csum_start offset value to replace the skb transport header for the purpose of checksums. This offset is calculated from skb->head so that it does not have to change when skb->data changes. No extra space is required since csum_offset itself fits within a 16-bit word so we can use the other 16 bits for csum_start. For backwards compatibility, just before we push a packet with partial checksums off into the device driver, we set the skb transport header to what it would have been under the old scheme. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[IPV6] FIB6RULE: Find source address during looking up route.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
When looking up route for destination with rules with source address restrictions, we may need to find a source address for the traffic if not given. Based on patch from Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp>. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET]: Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic codeDavid Howells
Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic code so that AF_RXRPC can use it too. The kdoc comments I've attached to the functions needs to be checked by whoever wrote them as I had to make some guesses about the workings of these functions. Signed-off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_to_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To clearly state the intent of copying to linear sk_buffs, _offset being a overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-04-25[NET]: Inline net_device_statsRusty Russell
Network drivers which keep stats allocate their own stats structure then write a get_stats() function to return them. It would be nice if this were done by default. 1) Add a new "stats" field to "struct net_device". 2) Add a new feature field to say "this driver uses the internal one" 3) Have a default "get_stats" which returns NULL if that feature not set. 4) Change callers to check result of get_stats call for NULL, not if ->get_stats is set. This should not break backwards compatibility with older drivers, yet allow modern drivers to shed some boilerplate code. Lightly tested: works for a modified lguest network driver. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25[NET]: Allow forwarding of ip_summed except CHECKSUM_COMPLETEHerbert Xu
Right now Xen has a horrible hack that lets it forward packets with partial checksums. One of the reasons that CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE were added is so that we can get rid of this hack (where it creates two extra bits in the skbuff to essentially mirror ip_summed without being destroyed by the forwarding code). I had forgotten that I've already gone through all the deivce drivers last time around to make sure that they're looking at ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL rather than ip_summed != 0 on transmit. In any case, I've now done that again so it should definitely be safe. Unfortunately nobody has yet added any code to update CHECKSUM_COMPLETE values on forward so we I'm setting that to CHECKSUM_NONE. This should be safe to remove for bridging but I'd like to check that code path first. So here is the patch that lets us get rid of the hack by preserving ip_summed (mostly) on forwarded packets. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET] fib_rules: Add no-operation actionThomas Graf
The use of nop rules simplifies the usage of goto rules and adds more flexibility as they allow targets to remain while the actual content of the branches can change easly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET] fib_rules: Mark rules detached from the deviceThomas Graf
Rules which match against device names in their selector can remain while the device itself disappears, in fact the device doesn't have to present when the rule is added in the first place. The device name is resolved by trying when the rule is added and later by listening to NETDEV_REGISTER/UNREGISTER notifications. This patch adds the flag FIB_RULE_DEV_DETACHED which is set towards userspace when a rule contains a device match which is unresolved at the moment. This eases spotting the reason why certain rules seem not to function properly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NET] fib_rules: goto rule actionThomas Graf
This patch adds a new rule action FR_ACT_GOTO which allows to skip a set of rules by jumping to another rule. The rule to jump to is specified via the FRA_GOTO attribute which carries a rule preference. Referring to a rule which doesn't exists is explicitely allowed. Such goto rules are marked with the flag FIB_RULE_UNRESOLVED and will act like a rule with a non-matching selector. The rule will become functional as soon as its target is present. The goto action enables performance optimizations by reducing the average number of rules that have to be passed per lookup. Example: 0: from all lookup local 40: not from all to 192.168.23.128 goto 32766 41: from all fwmark 0xa blackhole 42: from all fwmark 0xff blackhole 32766: from all lookup main Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: kill destroy() in struct nf_conntrack for dietYasuyuki Kozakai
The destructor per conntrack is unnecessary, then this replaces it with system wide destructor. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: don't use nfct in skb if conntrack is disabledYasuyuki Kozakai
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[NETLINK]: Remove error pointer from netlink message handlerThomas Graf
The error pointer argument in netlink message handlers is used to signal the special case where processing has to be interrupted because a dump was started but no error happened. Instead it is simpler and more clear to return -EINTR and have netlink_run_queue() deal with getting the queue right. nfnetlink passed on this error pointer to its subsystem handlers but only uses it to signal the start of a netlink dump. Therefore it can be removed there as well. This patch also cleans up the error handling in the affected message handlers to be consistent since it had to be touched anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[RTNL]: Message handler registration interfaceThomas Graf
This patch adds a new interface to register rtnetlink message handlers replacing the exported rtnl_links[] array which required many message handlers to be exported unnecessarly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>